Submitted by tmtowner@utdall... on Thu, 2013-10-10 15:16
Until her parents' deaths when she is twelve, Lena Grove lives on a farm outside an unspecified town in Alabama. With her family she goes into this small town "six or eight times a year" (3).
Submitted by tmtowner@utdall... on Thu, 2013-10-10 15:10
Doane's Mill, Alabama, is where Lena Grove's brother McKinley lives. According to the furniture dealer who narrates the novel's concluding chapter, it is in "south Alabama" (500). Lena moves there to live with McKinley's family after her parents die when she is twelve. A village built around a lumber mill, Doane's Mill is younger than she is: the narrator says it came into existence seven years earlier, "and in seven years more it would destroy all the timber within its reach" (4).
Submitted by tmtowner@utdall... on Thu, 2013-10-10 15:02
Until her parents' deaths when she is twelve, Lena Grove lives on a farm outside an unspecified town in Alabama. With her family she goes into this small town "six or eight times a year" (Light in August, 3).
Submitted by tmtowner@utdall... on Thu, 2013-10-10 14:55
Doane's Mill is the fictional Alabama town in Light in August where Lena Grove's brother McKinley lives. According to the furniture dealer who narrates much of the novel's concluding chapter, it is in "south Alabama" (500). Lena moves there to live with McKinley's family after her parents die when she is twelve. A village built around a lumber mill, Doane's Mill is younger than she is: the narrator says it came into existence seven years earlier, "and in seven years more it would destroy all the timber within its reach" (4).
This bridge crosses the Yoknapatawpha River. If Faulkner is imagining it in this story in the same place in occupies in As I Lay Dying, it's quite a ways from Mrs. Littlejohn's lot, indicating how far the spotted horses run to, and explaining why Lon Quick takes a "camp outfit" with him in pursuit of the one he bought (180).
