Milly Hines
Character Key Number:
3018
Display Name:
Milly Hines
Sort Name:
Hines, Milly
Parent Character Key:
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?:
No
Biography:
In Light in August the mother whom Joe Christmas never knew was a young woman in Arkansas when she had a very brief relationship with "a fellow with the circus" that passed through her neighborhood (374). Nine months after that man is killed by her father, Milly dies giving birth to their child.