Unnamed Woman in Red Dress
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Unnamed Woman in Red Dress
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Unnamed Woman in Red Dress
Race:
White
Gender:
Female
Class:
Lower Class
Rank:
Secondary
Vitality:
Alive
First Mentioned:
Biography:
Among the people attending Red's funeral, this "woman in a red dress" deserves to be singled out. She plays a role that recurs in Faulkner's fiction: the agent of chaos. Just as the crowd "grows quiet" listening to the orchestra play a hymn, she enters "unsteadily"; her first word is "Whoopee" (245). Later, her demand that Joe "get that damn stiff out of here and open the [crap] game," accompanied by "a burst of filthy language" (248), sets off the violence that brings the funeral literally crashing to an end.
Individual or Group:
Individual
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