Unnamed Plantation Mistresses

Character Key Number: 
2820
Display Name: 
Unnamed Plantation Mistresses
Sort Name: 
Unnamed Plantation Mistresses
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?: 
Yes
Biography: 

According to Ab Snopes in "My Grandmother Millard," "there aint a white lady between [Yoknapatawpha] and Memphis" who doesn't copy the strategy that Mrs. Compson used to try to protect her family's "silver" from the Yankees (676).