Submitted by cornellgoldw@fo... on Mon, 2013-07-01 16:49
Madame de Pompadour was the primary mistress of Louis XV, an 18th century King of France. Issetibbeha returns home from France with some furniture reputedly owned by Louis XV.
Submitted by sperkins@stanfo... on Mon, 2013-07-01 13:17
While driving to Fentry's place with Gavin Stevens along "the northeast road," Chick describes the landscape this way: "We were in the hills now, out of the rich flat land, among the pine and bracken, the poor soil, the little tilted and barren patches of gaunt corn and cotton which somehow endured, as the people they clothed and fed somehow endured; the roads we followed less than lanes, winding and narrow, rutted and dust choked, the car in second gear half the time" (94-95).
Submitted by sperkins@stanfo... on Mon, 2013-07-01 13:14
The road that goes northeast from Jefferson is referred to as a "main road" in Flags in the Dust (259), a "high road" in "Gold Is Not Always" (228), and "the northeast road" by Chick Mallison in "Tomorrow." It leads to the MacCallum place, the McCaslin place, "Beat Four" (and a dozen specific Locations in Intruder in the Dust); it takes Jason Compson as far as he gets from his house in The Sound and the Fury - which isn't far. According to our calculations, it's where Bayard Sartoris (in Flags in the Dust) has his first car accident.
Submitted by sperkins@stanfo... on Mon, 2013-07-01 12:44
It is on the "deserted gallery" - that is, the front porch - of "Varner’s store in Frenchman’s Bend Village" that Isham Quick explains Stonewall Jackson Fentry’s relationship to the Buck Thorpe and Stevens finally understands why Fentry refused to declare Bookwright innocent of Thorpe's murder (102). This scene takes place at sundown, which explains why no one else is at the store.
Submitted by sperkins@stanfo... on Mon, 2013-07-01 11:44
The county courthouse is the scene of Bookwright's trial. In addition, since the text gives no indication where Chick as he narrates the events of the story, we are using the Courthouse Square as the generic location for him in his narrative role - as we do throughout Digital Yoknapatawpha.
Submitted by sperkins@stanfo... on Sun, 2013-06-30 13:39
In "Tomorrow," the jury members for the Bookwright trial debate the verdict in the back room of Mrs. Rouncewell's boarding house. They are moved to there after it becomes clear that they will not arrive at a decision as quickly as anticipated. The room is "right opposite that mulberry tree" that Gavin Stevens asks his nephew Chick to climb in order to eavesdrop on their deliberations (93).
Pruitt's place is the next home closest to that of the Fentry farm, thus locating it on the extreme edge of Yoknapatawpha, 30 miles past Frenchman's Bend and 20 miles past Jefferson. Chick Mallison describes the property: "The next mailbox was within the mile [of Fentry's], and this time the house as even painted, with beds of petunias beside the steps, and the land about it was better" (95).
