The street on which Bayard crashes while riding the stallion leads away from the street with the livery stable on it. It is described as "quieter," quiet enough to allow children to be playing in it when Bayard and horse suddenly appear (130). The trees that line it, the cement sidewalks and the presence of black yardmen all suggest a wealthy or at least middle-class white neighborhood. The one car driving down the street belongs to Narcissa Benbow.
Several of the fictions refer to the wider, well-shaded streets where are found Jefferson's higher class homes. The street on which Bayard crashes while riding the stallion in Flags in the Dust, for example, leads away from the street with the livery stable on it. It is described as "quieter," quiet enough to allow children to be playing in it when Bayard and horse suddenly appear (130). The trees that line it, the cement sidewalks and the presence of black yardmen all suggest a wealthy or at least middle-class white neighborhood.
This icon represents the two unnamed black men whom Bayard, trying to avoid a white child, swerves toward on his wild stallion ride through Jefferson. Since one is "playing a hose on the sidewalk" and the other is holding "a pitchfork," it seems safe to identify them as yardmen working for one of the white families who live on this "quiet" street (130). They are not injured, though Bayard is when the horse slips on the wet concrete; the "negro with the pitchfork" drives the stallion away from Bayard's fallen body.
This icon represents four different groups: (1) The children playing in the street whom Bayard, riding the wild stallion, swerves to avoid running into; only one is individualized: "a small figure in a white shirt and diminutive pale blue pants" (130). (2) The "neighbors' children" who play "quietly" among the flowers and trees on the lawn at the Benbow house (164). (3) The children playing "quietly and a little stiffly" in the cemetery that Jenny and Isom visit at the end of the novel (399). All these groups appear in Jefferson.
The "Leicester lounge" where young Bayard gets into a fight with an Australian major during World War I is presumably in the English city of Leicester, which is 90 miles north of London (124). Earlier the narrative had noted that Young Bayard and Johnny Sartoris had gone to England in 1916, where they presumably trained as aviators before going to the war in France.
The "Leicester lounge" where young Bayard gets into a fight with an Australian major during World War I is presumably in the English city of Leicester, which is 90 miles north of London (124). Earlier Flags in the Dust had noted that Young Bayard and Johnny Sartoris had gone to England in 1916, where they presumably trained as aviators before going to the war in France.
