Bobbie Allen
Character Key Number:
3007
Display Name:
Bobbie Allen
Sort Name:
Bobbie Allen
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?:
No
Biography:
In Light in August, Bobbie comes from a brothel in Memphis to the railroad town where she works for Max and Mame, by day as a waitress "in a small, dingy, back street restaurant" and by night as a prostitute. She responds to the romantic advances of 18-year old Joe Christmas, even though "she would never see thirty again" (172).