Character Analysis
Reverend Bingham is the local pastor who presides over Ma and Franklin's funeral. Preaching at anyone's memorial service can't be an easy job, but Billie Jo isn't too thrilled with the treatment he gives Ma and her brother. "I could tell he never truly knew her," she says of the service. "He'd never even heard her play piano" (38.3). It's a bit of a bummer, for sure.