Mrs. Odlethrop

Character Key Number: 
2480
Display Name: 
Mrs. Odlethrop
Sort Name: 
Odlethrop, Mrs.
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?: 
Yes
Biography: 

Presumably Monk's grandmother, Mrs. Odlethrop lives like a hermit with Monk and seems fiercely protective of him. People tell of how she chased her son and Monk's mother "out of the house and out of the country" with a shotgun because that son was "too much even for that country and people" (43).

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