Compson Place: Carriage House|Res Snopes' House (Location Key)

In The Sound and the Fury Jason Compson keeps the car he's so proud of in what he thinks of as "the garage" (187). The building almost certainly was built as the antebellum mansion's carriage house, and presumably it's also where the family keeps the "surrey" in which Mrs. Compson makes her weekly pilgrimages to the cemetery. After this transformation from carriage house to car garage, the structure is transformed again in The Mansion: in a still more damning example, from Faulkner's perspective, of history and change as loss, the building becomes the home of a Snopes. The Compson 'big house' burns burns down, and Jason sells the remaining property to Flem. Flem hires Wat Snopes to convert the unburned "carriage house . . . into a small two-storey residence" for another relative, Orestes Snopes (361). Res - as he's known - "fences up the adjacent ground into lots" on which he raises "scrubby cattle and hogs" (361).