Submitted by thagood@fau.edu on Mon, 2013-02-11 17:59
Colonel Thomas Sutpen's plantation (called "Sutpen's Hundred" in Absalom, Absalom!, where it is also referred to as the largest plantation in Yoknapatawpha) is the site where much of the action of the story takes place.
Submitted by thagood@fau.edu on Mon, 2013-02-11 17:56
An old shack where Wash Jones squats. Faulkner describes the edifice as "a crazy shack on a slough in the river bottom on the Sutpen place, which Sutpen had built for a fishing lodge in his bachelor days and which had since fallen in dilapidation from disuse, so that now it looked like an aged or sick wild beast crawled terrifically there to drink in the act of dying" (536).
Submitted by thagood@fau.edu on Mon, 2013-02-11 17:39
In Absalom! the lot beside Sutpen's stable is large enough to provide the arena in which he and his slaves wrestle for sport, while the rest of the slaves and a large number of white men from the county and the town watch. Beyond the stable is a "grove" in which the visiting spectators hitch their "teams and saddle horses and mules" (20).
Submitted by sek4q@virginia.edu on Thu, 2013-01-24 17:20
The hotel appears only once in "That Evening Sun," as the residence of Mr. Lovelady and his wife and daughter. It is most likely a boarding house, catering to less genteel men and usually excluding women. Similar hotels with a variety of names (e.g., Beard, Snopes, Commercial, Holston House) occur in a number of Faulkner's fictions.
Submitted by chlester0@gmail.com on Mon, 2013-01-07 18:15
St. Louis, Missouri, is almost 300 miles further from Yoknapatawpha than Memphis, which explains Frony phrase "all de way fum Saint Looey" in The Sound and the Fury (293). It is also a much bigger city: its population was already over 100,000 when Calvin Burden moved his family there from New England in the 1850s (in Flags in the Dust), and over 800,000 in the 1930s, when Frony moves there herself to be with her unnamed husband (in "Appendix Compson").
Submitted by napolinj@newsch... on Fri, 2012-12-28 10:24
Nancy's cabin appears only once in Faulkner's fiction. In "That Evening Sun" it is down the lane that runs from the back of the Compson house, across a ditch and on the other side of a fence that Nancy and the Compson children stoop down to pass. It is protected by a door with a wooden bar and warmed by a small hearth, before which a chair sits. It has a notable smell, at times mysterious and other times coming from the wick of a globular lamp. There is a table that on one occasion held a bloody hog bone.
Submitted by sek4q@virginia.edu on Fri, 2012-12-28 10:23
The county jail in Jefferson is at least two stories tall. It has barred windows and is surrounded by a fence, but is still relatively close to the the street: "all that night the ones that passed the jail could hear Nancy singing and yelling" (291).
