Unnamed Negro Cook 4
Character Key Number:
612
Display Name:
Unnamed Negro Cook 4
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Unnamed Negro Cook 4
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?:
No
Biography:
In "Monk" Warden Gambrell has an unnamed Negro cook who works in his house as a trusty; when the warden's pistol goes missing, he has the cook "severely beaten" on the assumption that he stole it (53). Historically, there were female prisoners at Parchman's, but in this story it seems more likely Faulkner is thinking of the cook as male.