Italian marble appears in Yoknapatawpha in 4 different Yoknapatawpha fictions: the marble tombstones Sutpen has made for himself and Ellen are imported from Italy in Absalom!; the marble columns for the rebuilt courthouse in Requiem for a Nun are too; and so is the marble medallion that Gavin Stevens and Linda Snopes order for Eula's monument in The Town, or the monument itself, referred to as an "outrageous marble lie" The Mansion (460).
In a passage about the possibility of an airfield being built in Yoknapatawpha, Faulkner locates his county in between "the flatter prairie land to the east near Columbus" and "the perfectly flat Delta land to the west near Greenville" (358). Columbus lies about one hundred miles southeast of 'Jefferson," i.e. Oxford.
In The Mansion Faulkner locates Yoknapatawpha in between "the flatter prairie land to the east near Columbus" and "the perfectly flat Delta land to the west near Greenville" (358). Columbus lies about one hundred miles southeast of 'Jefferson," i.e. Oxford. If you imagined Yoknapatawpha somewhere on a straight line drawn between Columbus and Greenville, it would be close to a hundred miles south of where it is assumed to be; perhaps in using these reference points, Faulkner is deliberately making it harder to locate his imaginary county on a real map of the state.
In a passage about a possible government airfield in Yoknapatawpha, Faulkner locates the county in between "the flatter prairie land to the east near Columbus" and "the perfectly flat Delta land to the west near Greenville" (358). Greenville lies next to the Mississippi River, about 130 miles southwest of 'Jefferson,' that is, Oxford, Mississippi. By using Greenville as the westward marker rather than, say, Clarksdale, which is 70 miles north of Greenville and still south of Oxford, Faulkner makes it harder to pinpoint the location of his imaginary county.
In The Mansion Faulkner locates Yoknapatawpha in between "the flatter prairie land to the east near Columbus" and "the perfectly flat Delta land to the west near Greenville" (358). Greenville lies next to the Mississippi River, about 130 miles southwest of 'Jefferson,' that is, Oxford, Mississippi. By using Greenville as the westward marker rather than, say, Clarksdale, which is 70 miles north of Greenville and still south of Oxford, Faulkner makes it harder to pinpoint the location of his imaginary county.
The real Herbert Hoover was the 31st President of the U.S. (1929-1933). The "Herbert Hoover" who appears in The Mansion, however, is the creation of Gavin Stevens, who is trying to direct the Federal Bureau of Investigation. away from Linda Snopes Kohl by writing an anonymous letter to "Herbert Hoover/F B & I Depment" accusing Flem Snopes of having a "commonist party Card" (269). The real head of the F.B.I. at the time, of course, was J.
The real Herbert Hoover was the 31st President of the U.S. (1929-1933). The "Herbert Hoover" who appears in The Mansion, however, is the creation of Gavin Stevens, who is trying to direct the Federal Bureau of Investigation. away from Linda Snopes Kohl by writing an anonymous letter to "Herbert Hoover/F B & I Depment" accusing Flem Snopes of having a "commonist party Card" (269). The real head of the F.B.I. at the time, of course, was J.
In Chapter 6 of The Mansion, Gavin Stevens refers to "the same old cynical manipulators" who had caused World War One and were now, in the late 1930s, about to start the Second World War: "the parasites - the hereditary proprietors, the farmers-general of the human dilemma" (178). The specific names he mentions in the passage include Benito Mussolini, "this one man" in Germany (Adolph Hitler), Huey Long in Louisiana and "our own Bilbo in Mississippi" as well as two racist and anti-Semitic organizations: the "K.K.K. and Silver Shirts" (179). V.K.
In Chapter 6 of The Mansion, Gavin Stevens refers to "the same old cynical manipulators" who had caused World War One and were now, in the late 1930s, about to start the Second World War: "the parasites - the hereditary proprietors, the farmers-general of the human dilemma" (178). The specific names he mentions in the passage include Benito Mussolini, "this one man" in Germany (Adolph Hitler), Huey Long in Louisiana and "our own Bilbo in Mississippi" as well as two racist and anti-Semitic organizations: the "K.K.K. and Silver Shirts" (179). V.K.
Most of the novel's references to Italy concern the fighting in Ethiopia that, along with the Spanish Civil War, was a precursor to World War II, and the Fascist who led the country at the time, Benito Mussolini. According to Ratliff's disparaging view of the darkening situation in Europe, Mussolini is not as dangerous as Hitler, "because all Mussolini has to work with are Italians while this other man has Germans" (179).
