Unnamed Sewing Women

Submitted by sfr on Tue, 2020-02-04 09:43
Character Key Number: 
2272
Display Name: 
Unnamed Sewing Women
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Unnamed Sewing Women
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?: 
Yes
Biography: 

These "sewing women" make the trousseau for Elly's wedding, coming to her house "daily" after the engagement to Philip is announced (214). Their race is not specified, which typically means 'white' in Faulkner's fiction, but at the same time domestic workers in the fiction are typically 'black,' so we have chosen to call these women's race unknown.

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