Negro Cabin where Bayard Sartoris Stays (Location Key)

"The house was a cabin," writes the narrator as Bayard approaches this location (360). Throughout the Yoknapatawpha fictions the distinction between 'houses' and 'cabins' is often a racial one, as it apparently is in this case - i.e. 'cabins' are where Negroes live. In this case the occupants are a husband, a wife and three children, none of whom are named. It is further from Jefferson than the MacCallum place, on the road but in a very isolated part of the country. The man grows cotton "right up to his back door" (363), the cabin is a single impoverished room with "a broken hearth" (364). Bayard Sartoris spends his last night in Yoknapatawpha - Christmas Eve - in the hayloft of its barn, and much of Christmas in the cabin itself.