Kentucky in The Sound and the Fury (Location)

Kentucky is mentioned often in Quentin's section, as the place where Gerald Bland and his mother are from. Jason refers to the Kentucky city of Louisville during a rant against the attitude of Yankees about African Americans: "Get [black people] ahead, what I say. Get them so far ahead you cant find one south of Louisville with a blood hound" (231). Louisville is on the Ohio River, which like the Mason-Dixon line was a boundary between the "free" North and the "slave" South.