Submitted by lorie.watkins@g... on Sat, 2015-03-21 12:51
Never given a first or maiden name in this story, Flem's wife was "the belle of the countryside" when they married (149). As her story is told in the short story "Spotted Horses" (1931) and retold with much more attention to her character in The Hamlet (1940), Eula Varner became Mrs. Flem Snopes when she became pregnant with another man's child; in return, her father gave him the Old Frenchman place as "a portion of [her] dowry" (150). After an extended honeymoon in Texas, surely timed to mask the date of the child's birth, the couple moves to Jefferson and takes over V.K.
