Unnamed Arkansas Doctor

Character Key Number: 
3066
Display Name: 
Unnamed Arkansas Doctor
Sort Name: 
Unnamed Arkansas Doctor
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?: 
No
Biography: 

In Light in August, when Hines realizes his daughter Milly is pregnant, he "starts out to find a doctor that would fix it" (377). He does not succeed, but according to his wife, he does "beat up a doctor in another town" (378), possibly because he refuses to perform an abortion.