We can locate the "one-way [i.e. one-lane] bridge" wooden bridge on which the Tull family runs into one of the escaped spotted horses very precisely. "Spotted Horses" and The Hamlet put it about a quarter mile from Mrs. Littlejohn's lot in the hamlet (176, 335), and The Town says it's "just this side of Bookright's turn-off" - i.e. the road that leads to Bookright's farm (36). Because it's a wooden bridge, the sound of the horses running over it carries a long way, providing the episode with an appropriately loud soundtrack.
Submitted by cornellgoldw@fo... on Sun, 2012-07-22 10:23
Baptists are one of the four largest denominations in Yoknapatawpha, and the Baptist church appears in two fictions, but this parsonage - where the minister and his wife live, and where we assume she was when she wrote the letter to Emily's "relations" (126) - only appears in "A Rose for Emily." (Hightower and his wife live in the Presbyterian parsonage, until her death forces him to resign his pulpit.)
Submitted by cornellgoldw@fo... on Sun, 2012-07-22 10:17
Although the story does not make its location explicit, Jefferson's town hall is presumably near the courthouse, and home to both the Mayor's and the Sheriff's offices. Mayors from two different generations try to resolve the problem of Miss Emily's taxes; the last one asks her to come to the Sheriff's office to pay them, "at her convenience" (120).
Submitted by cornellgoldw@fo... on Sun, 2012-07-22 10:06
This "cedar-bemused cemetery" appears often in the Yoknapatawpha fictions. Miss Emily is laid to rest in there among the "august names" of Yoknapatawpha (presumably including the Sartorises and Compsons who are buried there in Faulkner's earlier texts), though the only other graves mentioned in this story belong to the anonymous "Union and Confederate soldiers who fell at the battle of Jefferson" (119).
Submitted by cornellgoldw@fo... on Tue, 2012-07-10 12:21
The story does not say where Miss Emily buys "a complete outfit of men's clothing, including a nightshirt" (127). Since no other Yoknapatawpha fiction mentions a 'clothing store,' we assume she makes her purchase in the town's department store, which appears in five other texts.
Submitted by cornellgoldw@fo... on Mon, 2012-07-09 17:53
The center of Yoknapatawpha County's political and commercial life, Courthouse Square is the central gathering place for many characters in "A Rose for Emily." We also use it to provide a Location for the narrator as he tells the story.
