Saddie

Submitted by sfr on Sat, 2019-01-12 13:49
Character Key Number: 
40
Display Name: 
Saddie
Sort Name: 
Saddie
Parent Character Key: 
Elnora Strother
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?: 
Yes
Biography: 

One of Elnora's three children in the short story "There Was a Queen," Saddie works as Miss Jenny's caretaker, "tending her as though she were a baby" (728). "Saddie" may be a corruption of 'Saturday.' She sleeps in the big house, "on a cot beside Virginia Du Pre's bed" (728). Genealogically, she is Miss Jenny's great-niece, the illegitimate granddaughter of her brother John, though that relationship is not discussed by any of the characters. (In the earlier novel Flags in the Dust, Elnora has only one child - Isom.)

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