Submitted by thagood@fau.edu on Tue, 2014-04-29 15:53
"Beard's lot" is the location where the "show" that visits Jefferson on Easter weekend sets up (15). The closest the narrative gets to the show is when Jason Compson drives his niece to school and sees the show people "putting up the tent" on the morning of Good Friday (188), but Job and Luster and a large number of country people go to see it, and that afternoon the sound of the band playing in the tent (230 etc.) provides a kind of (largely unheard) sound track to the Jefferson events in Jason's section.
Submitted by thagood@fau.edu on Tue, 2014-04-29 15:52
In The Sound and the Fury "Beard's lot" is the location where the "show" that visits Jefferson on Easter weekend sets up (15). The closest the narrative gets to the show is when Jason Compson drives his niece to school and sees the show people "putting up the tent" (188), but Job and Luster and a large number of country people go to see it, and the sound of the band playing in the tent (230 etc.) provides a kind of (largely unheard) sound track to the afternoon Jefferson events in Jason's section.
Submitted by thagood@fau.edu on Tue, 2014-04-29 15:51
The Mississippi State Insane Asylum was located in Jackson until 1935. Jason Compson several times comments that his brother Benjy should be sent there, and even wonders - facetiously, he thinks - if the whole family should be "down there at Jackson chasing butterflies" (230). (In the "Appendix" Faulkner wrote about fifteen years after the novel, it turns out that Jason does have Benjy committed there, but a dozen years later, in The Mansion, Faulkner decided to have Benjy released to return home, though it is hardly a happy ending to his story.)
Submitted by thagood@fau.edu on Tue, 2014-04-29 15:48
Historically, the Mississippi State Insane Asylum was opened in Jackson in 1855, and operated there until 1935. In Faulkner's fictions it is simply referred to as "the asylum" or "Jackson" - or, by Ratliff in "A Bear Hunt," "the Jackson a-sylum" (75). Two of Faulkner's most memorable characters are committed there: Benjy Compson and Darl Bundren.
Submitted by jburgers@gc.cuny.edu on Sun, 2014-04-27 18:48
Dilsey and her family live in what is almost certainly a former slave cabin behind the Compsons' big house. The ground in front of the cabin is "bare," and it is "shaded" by three mulberry trees (266). Benjy, who occasionally sleeps there and likes the way it smells, refers to it as "Dilsey's house" (33), and at other points as "T.P.'s house" and "Versh's house."
Submitted by dorette.sobolew... on Sat, 2014-04-26 19:06
This woman is part of a "throng of Negroes before a cheap grocery store"; Old Het gives her a banana, but it's not clear whether it's to eat or just to hold for a minute (259).
Submitted by dorette.sobolew... on Sat, 2014-04-26 18:35
The cashier tries to convince Mannie Hait to invest her settlement in bonds. (There is also a "teller" on hand at the time, so we create two characters - though usually the terms "teller" and "cashier" are synonymous.)
