Identified as the "son of a carpenter," this "youth" in Flags in the Dust occupies only half a paragraph of text, but his story contains a number of intriguing details (181). Despite his blue-collar origin, Belle Mitchell decides to "make a poet" of him, and sends him to New Orleans presumably as part of that process (181). Faulkner also wanted to be a poet, and went to New Orleans at the start of his writing career.
New York City is where the Sartoris twins, Bayard and John, meet "every month or so" during their college years, when they've been separated by the family (381). The city is also where the ship on which Horace Benbow returns to the U.S. from Oxford University lands, and where he is met by a telegram telling him his father is seriously ill.
New York City figures in 10 different texts, in a variety of ways. The text that spends the most time in the city is The Mansion, which mentions a number of specific landmarks, like the Twenty-One and Stork Clubs and Central Park. The city's history as an immigrant community is gestured to in "Ad Astra," and as an embarkation point for Americans going to and from Europe in Flags in the Dust and Requiem for a Queen. Its financial district provides food for Jason Compson's hopes and fuel for his anger in The Sound and the Fury.
