Mrs. Bland

Submitted by thagood@fau.edu on Wed, 2014-04-09 08:33
Text: 
The Sound and the Fury
Character Key: 
Mrs. Bland 1
Display Name: 
Mrs. Bland
Sort Name: 
Bland, Mrs.
Race: 
White
Gender: 
Female
Class: 
Upper Class
Rank: 
Minor
Vitality: 
Alive
First Mentioned: 
Cambridge Inset: River and Drawbridge in The Sound and the Fury (Location)
Home: 
Kentucky in The Sound and the Fury (Location)
Biography: 

Mrs. Bland is the mother of Quentin's Harvard classmate Gerald; she has moved from Kentucky to Cambridge to be close to her son. She lays claim to an aristocratic heritage, and in person is both formal and insistent. Shreve calls her "fate in eight yards of apricot silk" (106).

Individual or Group: 
Individual
Character changes class in this text: 

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