Miss Holmes

Character Key Number: 
1638
Display Name: 
Miss Holmes
Sort Name: 
Holmes, Miss
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?: 
No
Biography: 

In The Sound and the Fury Miss Holmes 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).

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