The Violent Bear It Away | Characters
Bernice Bishop
Referred to by Mason Tarwater and his greatnephew Francis Marion Tarwater as “the welfare woman,” Bernice Bishop is mother to the mentally disabled boy, Bishop, and she is ex-wife to George Rayber. Bernice Bishop appears only in the past, in the novel’s many flashbacks. It is learned in one of these flashbacks that Rayber attempted to “rescue” the young Tarwater from his uncle, that his wife accompanied him, and that she was repulsed by the boy’s expressionless response to his greatuncle’s violence; she declared that she could not live with him....
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