Louvinia

Like her husband Joby, Louvinia stays at Sartoris for most of this story about Rosa's quest to retrieve the Sartoris family silver from the Yankee army. For Louvinia, however, the most important goal of Rosa's trip should be "getting" her son Loosh "back" (38). He and his wife Philadelphy emancipated themselves when the Union soldiers passed through Yoknapatawpha, but there's no doubt in his mother's mind that he belongs on the Sartoris plantation: "you whup him!" she tells Rosa, in what is both a testament to her maternal love and her odd tribute to the power dynamics of slavery; "Take that pairsawl and wear hit out on him!" till he agrees to come back (38).