Lizzie

Submitted by sek4q@virginia.edu on Wed, 2012-06-13 11:47
Text: 
"Barn Burning"
Character Key: 
Lizzie
Display Name: 
Lizzie
Sort Name: 
Lizzie
Race: 
White
Gender: 
Female
Class: 
Poor White
Rank: 
Secondary
Vitality: 
Alive
First Mentioned: 
Grove in "Barn Burning" in "Barn Burning" (Location)
Real?: 
No
Other Texts: 
The Hamlet
Biography: 

Lizzie is the sister of Lennie Snopes, Abner's wife, who lives with the Snopes family as they move from farm to farm. She and Lennie have a close relationship: on the night Ab sets out to burn down De Spain's barn, they "sit side by side on the bed, the aunt's arms around [Sarty's] mother's shoulders" (22). When Ab commands commands his wife to restrain Sarty so that he cannot sound the alarm, Lizzie sides against Ab, telling Lennie: "Let him go! . . . If he don't go, before God, I am going up there [to warn de Spain] myself" (22).

Individual or Group: 
Individual
Character changes class in this text: 

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