Submitted by dotty.dye@asu.edu on Mon, 2013-03-18 12:44
The Jefferson movie theater is referenced when the deputy sheriff’s wife cuts off his narrative, ending the short story with the line: "I'm going to clear this table then and I'm going to the picture show" (255).
Submitted by dotty.dye@asu.edu on Mon, 2013-03-18 12:42
The courthouse, located in the center of Jefferson’s town square, is only mentioned in passing when the deputy sheriff's wife chastises him: "You sheriffs! Sitting around that courthouse all day long talking, it's no wonder two or three men can walk in and take prisoners out from under your noses" (252).
Submitted by dotty.dye@asu.edu on Mon, 2013-03-18 12:38
This is the location where, on the day after Rider's lynching in "Pantaloon in Black," the unnamed wife of the deputy sheriff "attended a club rook party" (147, 252). We assume that social event takes place at the home of an acquaintance somewhere in town, but that's not explicitly stated in the texts.
Submitted by dotty.dye@asu.edu on Mon, 2013-03-18 12:37
The county jail is in town and is at least two stories high with a holding cell upstairs furnished with iron cots. After throwing one of those cots against the wall, Rider "grabs holt of that steel door and rips it out of the wall - bricks, hinges and all - and walks out into the big room" (255).
Submitted by dotty.dye@asu.edu on Mon, 2013-03-18 12:35
In the kitchen of his house, the deputy sheriff retells Rider’s story to his (the deputy's) wife while she shuttles back and forth between the kitchen and dining room. We do not have any clues as to the location of the house, but speculate that it is in town and not far from the jailhouse.
Submitted by dotty.dye@asu.edu on Mon, 2013-03-18 12:32
"Pantaloon in Black" ends with an unnamed deputy sheriff trying to tell his wife about Rider while she cooks supper in the kitchen of the house and carries it into the dining room. The house is big enough to have a dining room, but that's all we know about it. She's in that room at the end, while he is still in the kitchen.
Submitted by dotty.dye@asu.edu on Mon, 2013-03-18 12:28
This "negro schoolhouse about two miles from the sawmill" is the location where lynched Rider's body is found, "hanging from the bell rope" that would have been pulled to call the children into school in the morning (252).
Submitted by dotty.dye@asu.edu on Mon, 2013-03-18 12:26
In "Pantaloon in Black" this "negro schoolhouse about two miles from the sawmill" is the location where lynched Rider's body is found, "hanging from the bell rope" that would have been pulled to call the children into school in the morning (252, 147).
Submitted by dotty.dye@asu.edu on Mon, 2013-03-18 12:17
The river swamp where the moonshiner lives in "Pantaloon in Black" is one of the locations in which Rider wanders restlessly between "the close walls of impenetrable cane-stalks" which seem to close in on him, the oppressive "unbreathing blackness" (247).
