Submitted by sek4q@virginia.edu on Fri, 2012-12-28 10:16
When Nancy is afraid to go to her own cabin, Dilsey tells her to "go down to the cabin"; "Frony will fix you a pallet and I'll be there soon" (298). The cabin Dilsey means is where she lives in this story with her children Frony, T.P. and Versh. It is undoubtedly the same cabin as the one behind the Compsons' big house in The Sound and the Fury.
Submitted by napolinj@newsch... on Fri, 2012-12-28 10:09
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 under 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 09:45
Dilsey and her family live in what is almost certainly a former slave cabin behind the Compsons' big house. The ground in front of the cabin is "bare," and it is "shaded" by three mulberry trees (266).
Submitted by chlester0@gmail.com on Tue, 2012-12-04 19:04
The Compson place includes the big house, Dilsey's cabin and "the pasture" behind them (290). Nancy sleeps on a pallet in the kitchen of the big house, where she seeks refuge from Jesus.
Submitted by napolinj@newsch... on Mon, 2012-11-26 21:54
Caddy - or as her mother calls her, "Candace" (293) - is the second of the three Compson children in this story: the younger sister of Quentin and the older sister of Jason. (In the earlier novel The Sound and the Fury there are four children, but Benjy, the youngest, does not appear here). As the narrator Quentin does not describe his sister, but in her words and actions Caddy here displays the same brassy and intrepid personality she had in The Sound and the Fury, commanding Nancy to work and teasing Jason about being scared of the dark.
