Stovall

Character Key Number: 
993
Display Name: 
Stovall
Sort Name: 
Stovall
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?: 
Yes
Biography: 

In "That Evening Sun," Mr. Stovall, the cashier in the Jefferson bank and "a deacon in the Baptist church," knocks Nancy to the ground and "kicks her in the mouth" when she accuses him of having failed to pay her for sex (291). In Requem for a Nun, where Nancy reappears as a major character, Temple Drake re-tells this event; she does not name the man, but refers to him as a "pillar of the church" (96).