Unnamed Illegitimate Children 2
Character Key Number:
2846
Display Name:
Unnamed Illegitimate Children 2
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Unnamed Illegitimate Children 2
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?:
No
Biography:
The "foals" referred to in the description of the passengers in the Memphis bus station in "Appendix Compson" are the illegitimate children conceived during wartime relationships between "homeless young women" and migratory men in the military (337). These children are described as being abandoned in "charity wards or policestations" (337).