Mandy's Cabin (Location Key)

Like Dilsey in The Sound and the Fury or Paralee in Intruder in the Dust, in "That Will Be Fine" Grandpa's Negro cook Mandy lives in a cabin "in the back yard" of the big house where her white employer lives (274). The narrator calls it both "Mandy's cabin" and "Mandy's house" (274, 276), but it seems likely that Grandpa owns it. It may have been a slave cabin in the past, like other cabins in the yards of Yoknapatawpha's big houses, but the story does not explicitly say that. When Rodney is locked inside it, we learn that it has a "door" and at least two "windows" (276).