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• Wagner, Hal:

• Waldrip, Mrs. Vernon:

• Walker, Ed:

• Waller, Mrs. Ed:

• Waller, Hamp:

• Waller, Mrs. Hamp:

• Walthall, Parson: A Methodist minister in Jefferson who loudly opposed plans to shoot the pigeons roosting in the church's steeple and the courthouse clock in The Sound and the Fury. Jason Compson denounced the minister's viewpoint, saying, "what does he care what time it is. He pays no taxes, he doesn't have to see his money going every year to have the courthouse clock cleaned to where it'll run."

• Wardle, Mrs.: A resident of Charlestown in Soldiers' Pay.

• Warwick: A 19th-century plantation, built about 1812 and owned by siblings Hubert and Sophonsiba Beauchamp, twenty-two miles (or half a day's ride) from the McCaslin plantation in Go Down, Moses. It is located "just over the edge of the next county" adjacent to Yoknapatawpha County. According to Sophonsiba, it was named "after the place in England that she said Mr. Hubert was probably the true earl of only he never even had enough pride, not to mention energy, to take the trouble to establish his just rights." Between 1873 and 1877, it burned, forcing Hubert to move to the McCaslin plantation.

• Wattman, Jakeleg:

• Watts:

• Watts, Birdie:

• Weddel, Francis:

• Weddel, Grenier:

• Weddel, Saucier:

• White, Hank: A name muttered by a drunk on the train in Soldiers' Pay. This may be the name of the man who tried to climb out of the train window after his suitcase, which Joe Gilligan had tossed out.

• White, Jed:

• Whitfield, Reverend: A preacher in Frenchman's Bend. According to the (self-)righteous Cora Tull in As I Lay Dying, Whitfield "wrestled with [Addie Bundren's] spirit, singled her out, and strove with the vanity in her mortal heart" — which was certainly true, as he had an illicit affair with Addie in which he impregnated her with her third child, Jewel. When Addie was dying, he expressed guilt and resolved to confess his sin to Addie's husband, Anse, but when he found Addie had already died, he concluded his confession was no longer necessary, saying "when I framed the words of my confession it was to Anse I spoke them, even though he was not there." He served as narrator for one section of the novel. In The Hamlet, he is described as a "harsh, stupid, honest, superstitious and upright minister, holder of no degrees," who suggested that to cure Ike Snopes of his lust for a cow that the animal be slaughtered, cooked, and fed to him. He appears also in "Tomorrow" (Knight’s Gambit) and "Shingles for the Lord."

• Widrington, Mrs.:

• Wilbourne, Dr.:

• Wilbourne, Henry (Harry):

• Wildermark:

• Wildermark (the senior):

• Wilkie: A black servant for Gerald Bland's grandfather's family in The Sound and the Fury.

• Wilkins, George:

• Wilkins, Mrs.:

• Wilkins, Professor (or Judge):

• Willard: The owner of a small house and fruit orchard near the home of Reverend Joseph Mahon in Soldiers' Pay.

• Willow, Colonel: A Confederate Army officer in Absalom, Absalom! who wrote the report about Henry Sutpen's wound, thus informing Thomas Sutpen where his son was stationed.

• Wilmoth:

• Winbush, Mrs.:

• Winbush, Fonzo:

• Winbush, Grover Cleveland: A relative of V. K. Ratliff who owned half-interest in the Jefferson cafe taken over by Flem Snopes. After Flem ousted him, he became night marshal, and after he was found out for his connection with the dirty postcard business of Montgomery Ward Snopes, he became the night watchman at a brickyard. He appears in The Town and The Mansion.

• Winbush, Mac:

• Winterbottom:

• Winterbottom, Mrs.:

• Wordwin:

• Workitt:

• Workitt, Uncle Sudley:

• Worthington, Mrs.: A wealthy widow and social leader in Charlestown who "believed in rights for women, as long as women would let her dictate what was right for them." She took the wounded Donald Mahon for an automobile ride, and because he liked music, she invited him to a dance she gives.

• Worsham, Miss Belle:

• Worsham, Doctor:

• Worsham, Hamp:

• Worsham, Samuel:

• Wright, "Doc": A cotton speculator who was often in the Jefferson telegraph office when Jason Compson went to play the stock market in The Sound and the Fury.

• Wyatt (old lady in "A Rose for Emily"):

• Wyatt, Captain:

• Wyatt, George:

• Wyatt, Henry:

• Wyatt, Aunt Sally:

• Wyatt, Miss Sophia:

• Wyott I:

• Wyott:

• Wyott, Doctor:

• Wyott, Miss Vaiden:

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