On his journey from his house in Kinston back to Yoknapatawpha, Horace "bums rides" from truck drivers and others, spending the nights in, successively, "a sawdust pile at a mill," "a negro cabin" and "a freight car on a siding" (16).
On his journey in Sanctuary from his house in Kinston back to Yoknapatawpha, Horace "bums rides" from truck drivers and others, spending the nights in, successively, "a sawdust pile at a mill," "a negro cabin" and "a freight car on a siding" (16).
In the "Appendix, Compson:1699-1945" that Faulkner wrote in 1946, seventeen years after The Sound and the Fury was first published, he traces the Compson patrimony all the way back to Scotland in the 18th century. The 1929 novel, however, contains only a few much vaguer references to the family history; Jason thinks, for example, about the "governors and generals" in the family past (230), and Quentin thinks that "one of our forefathers was a governor and three were generals" (101). It's likely that the Compson that Mr. Compson mentions as his father's "father" (76) was the governor.
The Town contains two different kinds of lists of the old (white) Yoknapatawpha families. The first such list is constructed by Gavin Stevens as he reflects on the county's history, and unlike the second list in this novel or the kind of role Faulkner provides elsewhere, Gavin's thoughts include the early lower class settlers as well as "the proud fading white plantation names" like "Sutpen and Sartoris and Compson and Edmonds and McCaslin and Beauchamp and Grenier and Habersham" (332).
