Unnamed Frightened Women and Children
Character Key Number:
2766
Display Name:
Unnamed Frightened Women and Children
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Unnamed Frightened Women and Children
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?:
Yes
Biography:
As part of his description in Go Down, Moses of Reconstruction in the South, Ike McCaslin imagines "women crouched with huddled children behind locked doors," seeking shelter from threats that are not named in the text, but are clearly meant to be understood as a consequence of the defeat of the (white) South and the emancipation of the (black) South (277).