Unnamed Negro Church Procession
Character Key Number:
1717
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Unnamed Negro Church Procession
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Unnamed Negro Church Procession
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?:
Yes
Biography:
The procession at the Negro church in Jefferson in The Sound and the Fury consists of "six small children: four girls with tight pigtails bound with small scraps of cloth like butterflies, and two boys with close napped heads" (292). At the start of the service on Easter Sunday, the children "entered and marched up the aisle, strung together in a harness of white ribbons and flowers" (292). Later they sing with the choir "in thin, frightened, tuneless whispers" (293).