Just after Jason has "passed churches" on his furious drive to Mottson, he realizes that he is about to get one of the severe headaches that the smell of gasoline gives him (306). He stops abruptly to search his car for one of the "handkerchiefs soaked in camphor" he usually wears over his nose, but finds nothing (307). For the rest of the trip his head is "throbbing" (308).
Jason Compson is furiously driving to Mottson in The Sound and the Fury when, just after he has "passed churches," he realizes that he is about to get one of the severe headaches that the smell of gasoline always gives him (306).
When Buck and Buddy McCaslin allow their slaves to live in the plantation big house and leave the place at night by the back door, the white inhabitants of the area share stories or rumors of "McCaslin slaves dodging the moonlit roads and the Patrol-riders to visit other plantations" (249). "Patrol-riders" - more frequently referred to as "paterollers' or 'paterrollers' - were armed white men whose job was to apprehend slaves found off their plantation after dark and to pursue fugitive slaves.
In The Unvanquished, when Buck and Buddy McCaslin allow their slaves to live in the plantation big house and leave the place at night by the back door, the white inhabitants of the area share stories or rumors of "McCaslin slaves dodging the moonlit roads and the Patrol-riders to visit other plantations" (249).
Near the end of the novella Charles Mallison rides the train through Jefferson on his way to his new military assignment. From the moving train he notes the familiar landmarks of his hometown, and especially the Negro and the white residential sections along the tracks.
