# Aunt Sue — Poetry character guide

> Aunt Sue in Poetry by Langston Hughes.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Sue

**First appearance:** 0005-aunt-sue-s-stories

## Snapshot

A maternal storyteller who gathers children close and spins out of dust and dreams the old tales that keep a people's memory alive.

## Who they are

Aunt Sue is the keeper of oral tradition, the aunt who has 'known high wind-swept mountains' and passes down what she has seen. Her voice is warm, patient, and rooted in the everyday — rain on the roof, a wash-woman's bundle, the smell of Thanksgiving. She matters because she embodies the collection's faith that stories, told by loving hands, can hold a community together across distance and hardship.

## In the story

### [Aunt Sue's Stories](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_15_se/chapters/aunt-sue-s-stories)

The storyteller, cradling a child and recounting tales of Black slaves from her own life.

## Links

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