Unnamed Soda Fountain Clerk
Character Key Number:
1758
Display Name:
Unnamed Soda Fountain Clerk
Sort Name:
Unnamed Soda Fountain Clerk
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?:
Yes
Biography:
When Minnie Cooper starts drinking in "Dry September," the "youth" who supplies her with whiskey is identified as "a clerk at the soda fountain" (175). (Selling liquor was illegal in Yoknapatawpha, except that doctors and drugstores could dispense it for medicinal purposes, which probably explains how this clerk has access to the alcohol.)