The place in the city of Chicago where young Bayard sits drinking scotch and soda with a bottle and a number of "soiled glasses" in front of him in the novel's last part is very far, culturally as well as physically, from the Sartoris place in rural Yoknapatawpha that he should be able to call home. It features saxophones, a crowded dance floor, "painted ladies," crooks and lots of other drinkers - all of whom, since this is after 1 January 1920, are breaking the Prohibition rules put in place by the Eighteenth Amendment (384).
The telegraph office is near the Square, and close enough to Dr. Peabody's office for him to pass it on his way to work in the morning, but Faulkner never describes it in any detail.
Characters send telegrams in three texts, including The Sound and the Fury, but in that novel Jefferson's "Western Union" telegraph office also serves as a place where residents who want to speculate on the commodities market congregate (226).
"A small frame house painted a sultry prodigious yellow, near the railway station," where the family of I. O. Snopes lives (235). The restaurant that he runs for his cousin Flem is presumably somewhere nearby.
In Flags in the Dust I.O. Snopes and his family live in Jefferson in this "small frame house painted a sultry prodigious yellow, near the railway station" (235). The side-street restaurant that he runs for his cousin Flem is presumably somewhere nearby.
Deacon Rogers' place on the Square is more than a restaurant. Its "cluttered but clean front section" sells groceries (119), the restaurant tables and kitchen are in the back, and beyond them, behind a door, is the small back room where Young Bayard drinks toddies made from the moonshine whisky Rafe MacCallum provides, mixed with sugar and lemons supplied by Deacon. "Rogers'" is mentioned again in Faulkner's next novel, The Sound and the Fury.
