Chicago, Illinois in Flags in the Dust (Location)

The place in the city of Chicago where young Bayard sits drinking scotch and soda with a bottle and a number of "soiled glasses" in front of him in the novel's last part is very far, culturally as well as physically, from the Sartoris place in rural Yoknapatawpha that he should be able to call home. It features saxophones, a crowded dance floor, "painted ladies," crooks and lots of other drinkers - all of whom, since this is after 1 January 1920, are breaking the Prohibition rules put in place by the Eighteenth Amendment (384).