Unnamed Sexual Partner of Mrs. Hightower

Character Key Number: 
2120
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Unnamed Sexual Partner of Mrs. Hightower
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Unnamed Sexual Partner of Mrs. Hightower
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?: 
No
Biography: 

The man whom Mrs. Hightower meets in a Memphis hotel in Light in August is drunk when he registers under a fictitious name as her husband. It is not clear if she had ever met him on any of her earlier trips to Memphis, nor what role he might have played in her death there, but the narrative says that "he was arrested" (67).