Light in August | Characters
Bobbie Allen is a waitress and prostitute working in a cafe and whorehouse near the McEachern farm of Joe Christmas's adopted parents about fifteen years before the main action of the novel. When Joe is seventeen, he has an affair with her. She betrays Joe when she, and her employers, Max and Mame, are forced to flee the town as a result of Joe's violence, after he strikes his foster father on the head with a chair at a country dance. Her betrayal is part of a pattern of female betrayals in Joe's life. Despite knowing that Bobbie was a prostitute, Joe had idealized her. Faulkner...
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