Unnamed Negro Old Woman 2
Character Key Number:
1219
Display Name:
Unnamed Negro Old Woman 2
Sort Name:
Unnamed Negro Old Woman 2
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?:
Yes
Biography:
This is the "old negro woman" in Light in August who sits, "smoking a pipe, her head wrapped in a white cloth," whom Joe Brown calls "Aunty" when he asks her to help him get a message to the sheriff (433-34). At first she refuses, saying that the one black man she knew who "thought he knowed a sheriff well enough to go and visit with him . . . aint never come back" (434).