Hightower, Mother of Gail
Character Key Number:
3036
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Hightower, Mother of Gail
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Hightower, Mother of Gail
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?:
No
Biography:
In Light in August Reverend Hightower's mother is the daughter of a genteel church-going couple without substantial means. By the time she has her first and only child, she has been an invalid for almost twenty years, possibly because she was malnourished during the Civil War.