Study Guide

Light in August Characters

Joe Christmas is the closest to a protagonist that we have in Light in August. He is a young man...

The daughter of an abolitionist family, Miss Burden has lived in Jefferson for over forty years....

Hightower is haunted by his family's past. The son of a Civil War medic and the grandson of a...

Bunch is characterized by his Christian work ethic and moral values. Refusing a life of wild...

If Miss Burden represents one kind of typical Faulkner lady (the old Southern spinster) then Lena...

The father of Lena's baby, Joe Brown is a rakish kind of guy with little moral fiber. He boozes,...

Christmas's foster father, Simon McEachern, is a strict, stern man who's deeply associated with a...

In Percy Grimm, Faulkner said that he "created a Nazi" (source: William Faulkner: The House...

Bobbie is a waitress at a local diner who also moonlights as a prostitute. Joe Christmas loses...

A paranoid, racist dietician at a white orphanage, Miss Atkins is responsible for placing Joe...

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