Varner Sharecropper Cabin in The Hamlet (Location)

The "sagging broken-backed cabin" where Ab and his family begin working as tenant farmers for the Varners is a grim place: the porch is "sagging and stepless," the windows are "sashless," and the yard is "littered with rubbish - the ashes, shards of pottery and tin cans - of its last tenants" (22).