Minnie Cooper
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Character Key:
Display Name:
Minnie Cooper
Sort Name:
Cooper, Minnie
Parent:
Race:
White
Gender:
Female
Class:
Middle Class
Rank:
Major
Vitality:
Alive
First Mentioned:
Date of Birth:
Thursday, January 1, 1880 to Saturday, December 31, 1881
Origin:
Jefferson
Real?:
No
Biography:
A Jefferson woman, "thirty-eight or thirty-nine" years of age (173), who accuses Will Mayes of assault, setting Faulkner's story in motion. She is described as "still on the slender side of ordinary looking, with a bright, faintly haggard manner and dress" (174). Never married, she lives with her mother and aunt, and has received local derision for her romantic travails and, more recently, her drinking. Toward the end of the story she suffers a nervous breakdown in a movie theater.
Individual or Group:
Individual
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