To the narrator she is "Mammy," but when her husband reveals her name when trying to calm her down: "Now Vynie; now Vynie - " (123). She works hard and frugally to contribute to her family's farm income, so she is resentful, suspicious, and caustic about her husband's adventures in horse-trading: "Horse trader! Setting there bragging and lying to a passel of shiftless men, and the weeds and morning glories climbing that thick in the corn and cotton that I am afraid to tote his dinner to him for fear of snakes" (120).
