Submitted by thagood@fau.edu on Wed, 2012-06-13 12:41
The location of the makeshift court where Ab Snopes pleads that twenty bushels of corn is too high a price to pay for ruining Major de Spain's rug. It is described as a "weathered and paintless store with its tattered tobacco- and patent-medicine posters [with] . . . tethered wagons and saddle animals below the gallery" (17).
Submitted by thagood@fau.edu on Wed, 2012-06-13 12:35
In "Barn Burning" this country store is the second one where a trial takes place; in The Hamlet, it's one of the three stores that are also legal venues. It is described in the story as a "weathered and paintless store with its tattered tobacco- and patent-medicine posters [with] . . . tethered wagons and saddle animals below the gallery" (17). Inside, the Justice of the Peace sits at a "plank table," obviously set up to create a kind of courtroom (17).
Submitted by sek4q@virginia.edu on Wed, 2012-06-13 12:00
Another servant of Major de Spain, described only as "the Negro youth on a fat bay carriage horse" (12); he rides behind De Spain, carrying the rug that Ab Snopes has soiled.
Submitted by sek4q@virginia.edu on Wed, 2012-06-13 11:47
Lizzie is the sister of Lennie Snopes, Abner's wife, who lives with the Snopes family as they move from farm to farm. She and Lennie have a close relationship: on the night Ab sets out to burn down De Spain's barn, they "sit side by side on the bed, the aunt's arms around [Sarty's] mother's shoulders" (22). When Ab commands commands his wife to restrain Sarty so that he cannot sound the alarm, Lizzie sides against Ab, telling Lennie: "Let him go! . . . If he don't go, before God, I am going up there [to warn de Spain] myself" (22).
Submitted by garrettm@u.nort... on Sat, 2012-06-09 14:02
The "sitting and lounging men" on the town Square appear in the story twice (175). The first time sums up the way they "do not even follow [Minnie Cooper] with their eyes any more," after she passes a certain age (175). The second time is when Minnie and her friends go to the movie while the lynching is occurring outside town, after the town has heard about the reported assault on her: "even the young men lounging in the doorway tipped their hats and follow with their eyes the motion of her hips and legs" (181).
Submitted by garrettm@u.nort... on Sat, 2012-06-09 14:01
"Coatless drummers" who sit in "chairs along the curb" outside the hotel and watch Minnie Cooper as she passes through the courthouse square with her friends (180). ("Drummer" was a common term for traveling salesman.)
Submitted by garrettm@u.nort... on Sat, 2012-06-09 13:51
A "pale, strained, and weary-looking" woman (182). Toward the end of the story her husband, John McLendon comes home at midnight, finds her reading a magazine, accuses her of waiting up for him, and strikes her.
Submitted by garrettm@u.nort... on Sat, 2012-06-09 13:49
At the end of "Dry September," McLendon drives up to "his neat new house, which is as "trim and fresh as a birdcage and almost as small, with its clean, green-and-white paint" (182). At the back is a "screen porch," where he presses his body "against the dusty screen" (183) - but most readers of the scene would say it is his wife who is the 'caged bird' in the family.
Submitted by garrettm@u.nort... on Sat, 2012-06-09 13:49
This is another of Faulkner's locations that, like many of his characters, morph between texts. At the end of "Dry September," "John McLendon" drives up to "his neat new house, which is as "trim and fresh as a birdcage and almost as small, with its clean, green-and-white paint" (182). At the back is a "screen porch," where he presses his body "against the dusty screen" (183) - but most readers of the scene would say it is his wife who is the 'caged bird' in the family.
