Jefferson Grocery Store in Intruder in the Dust (Location)

The store owned by Mr. Lilley, the "countryman who moved to town a year ago," is described by the narrator as "a small shabby street grocery whose customers were mostly Negroes" (47). When Gavin Stevens explains Lilley's relationship with African Americans to Chick, he mentions some of the articles that the store sells: chewing gum, bluing, bananas, sardines, shoelaces, hair straightener, meat, candy, lard (47).