Miss Atkins

Submitted by sfr on Thu, 2020-01-30 14:59
Character Key Number: 
3008
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Miss Atkins
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Atkins, Miss
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?: 
No
Biography: 

In Light in August, Miss Atkins is the dietitian - "young, a little fullbodied, smooth, pink-and-white" - believes the five-year-old Joe Christmas is "going to tell" of her sexual episode with the young intern (120, 124). She calls Joe a "little nigger bastard" and raises questions with the matron about his racial identity so that he will be removed from the orphanage before exposing her (122).

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