Unnamed Negro Cook 10
Character Key Number:
1046
Display Name:
Unnamed Negro Cook 10
Sort Name:
Unnamed Negro Cook 10
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?:
Yes
Biography:
In Intruder in the Dust Gavin Stevens describes seeing "[Sheriff] Hampton's cook" sitting in his kitchen eating greens with Lucas Beauchamp (219). Gavin does not describe the cook at all, but it seems safe to assume that she is a Negro woman; for one reason, all but one of the cooks in the Yoknapatawpha fiction are, and for another, she is eating at the same table as Lucas. Earlier Gavin calls her "a hired town cook," who gets to the Sheriff's house "at a decent hour about eight" (106).