Doctor Wyott

Character Key Number: 
3281
Display Name: 
Doctor Wyott
Sort Name: 
Wyott, Doctor
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?: 
Yes
Biography: 

In The Town Old Doctor Wyott is president emeritus of the Academy founded by his grandfather; he "could read not only Greek and Hebrew but Sanskrit too," and is "absolved" from religious affiliation by conventional Jeffersonians (320). It would seem likely that he and the Vaiden Wyott who is such a good elementary school teacher must be related. Like him, she is descended from an old Yoknapatawpha family. But the novel gives no hint of a relationship between these two Wyott lineages.

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