Submitted by cornellgoldw@fo... on Thu, 2013-12-19 12:12
Founded in 1819, Memphis, Tennessee, had over 162,000 residents in 1920, making it the closest big city to Yoknapatawpha County. It plays a role in many of Faulkner's novels and stories, especially as the place where people from Jefferson went to misbehave: to buy liquor and gamble in the nightclubs or have sex in the hotels and brothels in the notorious Beale Street area.
Submitted by cornellgoldw@fo... on Thu, 2013-12-19 12:03
The one-room "tumble down negro cabin" (36) behind the Burden mansion that Christmas lives in with "Brown" has two cots and a window. A kerosene lantern sits on a wooden box, which serves as a table (103). The cabin was originally built before the Civil War for slaves on the plantation, but has been empty for years before Joe moves in. After he and "Brown" depart, Bryon has Lena Grove occupy the cabin, and it is the place where her child is born.
Submitted by cornellgoldw@fo... on Thu, 2013-12-19 11:59
The one-room "tumble down negro cabin" (36) behind the Burden mansion that Joe Christmas lives in with 'Joe Brown' in Light in August was originally built before the Civil War for slaves on the plantation, but has been empty for years before Joe moves in. After he and 'Brown' depart, Bryon Bunch moves Lena Grove into the cabin, and it is the place where her child is born.
Submitted by jjoiner@keuka.edu on Thu, 2013-12-19 11:43
According to Bayard's paraphrase, Aunt Louisa's letter to Granny says that she has found out where Drusilla has gone: "she was with father away in Carolina, . . . riding with the troop like she was a man" (93). Bayard doesn't say which "Carolina."
The "youthful clerk" in the drug store who re-wraps the package that Joan dropped in the street also "star[es] at her boldly" (319). This ungallant action is the only detail we have to characterize him, although it is probably intended to reveal at least as much about Joan as the kind of woman who invites such behavior.
Jefferson's drugstore provides a number of different services in the different fictions it appears in. In this story it is where Joan goes to have a package re-wrapped and to look "into a show-case of cosmetics" (319).
