Unnamed Sister|Niece of Mrs. McCaslin

Character Key Number: 
2721
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Unnamed Sister|Niece of Mrs. McCaslin
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Unnamed Sister|Niece of Mrs. McCaslin
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?: 
Yes
Biography: 

In "Delta Autumn," this woman, Ike McCaslin's "dead wife's niece," lives in his house in Jefferson with her children and looks after him during the fifty weeks of the year he is not in the woods (274). In Go Down, Moses this same woman is called his "dead wife’s widowed niece" near the end (335), but in the first mention of her, in the very beginning of the novel, she is "his wife's sister" and his "sister-in-law" (6). Faulkner either mis-remembered the story when he wrote "sister" or forgot to change "niece" to "sister" later.