Miss Holmes

Submitted by rlcoleman@usout... on Mon, 2014-04-07 23:48
Text: 
The Sound and the Fury
Character Key: 
Miss Holmes
Display Name: 
Miss Holmes
Sort Name: 
Holmes, Miss
Race: 
White
Gender: 
Female
Class: 
Middle Class
Rank: 
Minor
Vitality: 
Alive
First Mentioned: 
Cambridge Inset: Town Center in The Sound and the Fury (Location)
Origin: 
United States
Biography: 

A minor character who is one of two young women on a pleasure outing with Mrs. Bland, Gerald, Spoade and Shreve when Quentin is arrested for kidnapping the unnamed Italian girl. Quentin notes that she and Miss Daingerfield, the other young woman, have "little white noses" (145) and look at him "through veils, with a kind of delicate horror" (141).

Social Status: 
has influential social contacts (family, business, political)
Individual or Group: 
Individual
Character changes class in this text: 

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