Unnamed Spinster Aunts
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Unnamed Spinster Aunts
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Unnamed Spinster Aunts
Race:
White
Gender:
Female
Class:
Upper Class
Rank:
Minor
Vitality:
Alive
Family:
McCaslin
First Mentioned:
Biography:
In an aside to his grandson about "that Cause" - i.e. the Civil War - Lucius refers to "your spinster aunts," and differentiates his idea about the War from theirs (228). Elsewhere in the Yoknapatawpha fictions, such women are identified with a refusal to surrender the 'Lost Cause,' or admit either defeat or the flaws of the Old South, but what they stand for here is not clear.
Individual or Group:
Group
Character changes class in this text:
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