Unnamed Sons of Cecilia Farmer
Character Key Number:
3195
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Unnamed Sons of Cecilia Farmer
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Unnamed Sons of Cecilia Farmer
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?:
No
Biography:
After the Civil War and her marriage in Requiem for a Nun, Cecilia (nee Farmer) becomes "the farmless mother of farmers (she would bear a dozen, all boys . . . ), bequeathing to them in their matronymic the heritage of that invincible inviolable ineptitude" (203).