Sudley Workitt
Character Key Number:
2916
Display Name:
Sudley Workitt
Sort Name:
Workitt, Sudley
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?:
Yes
Biography:
The man who owns the timber that Vinson and Crawford Gowrie are harvesting in Intruder in the Dust is first referred to as "Uncle Sudley Workitt" (215), and later identified as the boys' mother's "second or fourth cousin or uncle or something" (217). He is described as "an old rheumatic man" and "half blind" (219).