This "little cubbyhole of an office in an alley" off the Square is where the town's night marshal is supposed to keep watch; it has "a stove and a telephone" (207). The marshal won't stay there, however, spending his time instead in "the cafe" nearby that "stays open all night" (206) - which has led the town to connect the telephone to "a big burglar alarm bell on the outside wall" of the office, to make sure someone in the cafe will hear it ringing and alert the marshal (207).
French Lick, where Mrs. Compson takes Caddy to find a husband in The Sound and the Fury, is a real town in southern Indiana. Since before the Civil War it has been well-known as a resort community with hotels and spas built up around its sulfur springs.
The oldest university in the United States and the institution in which Quentin Compson matriculates because, as his father tells him, "for you to go to Harvard has been your mothers dream since you were born" (178). The second section of The Sound and the Fury - "June 2, 1910" - begins there, when Quentin wakes up there in the dorm room he shares with Shreve, and ends there as well, when Quentin leaves the room for the last time.
The character Will Varner will appear in ten later texts. In this novel, all that appears is his name, attached to his store in Frenchman's Bend: "Varner's store" is one of the local landmarks that Byron passes on his flight from Yoknapatawpha (278).
This novel briefly refers back to an event that is described much more elaborately in The Town, when the Eula Snopes' memorial at the cemetery is completed with the edition of the medallion of her face that her daughter Linda and Gavin Stevens arranged to have carved in Italy and fixed to the "white monument" that her husband Flem erected over her grave, with its profoundly ironic tribute to her as his "virtuous wife" (165-66).
The marble "colyum" (to quote Ratliff, 371) that Flem Snopes erects in the town cemetery to Eula betrays not just the truth but the greatness of his wife, especially the epitaph that Flem has inscribed upon it: "A virtuous Wife is a Crown to her Husband," etc. (372). But Eula's daughter Linda and Gavin Stevens, her would-be champion, redeem this act of hypocrisy and tastelessness by finding "the right photograph" of her face and sending it to Italy "to be carved into a medallion to fasten onto the front of the monument" (366).
The Confederate monument that stands in front of the courthouse in the Square at the center of Jefferson appears in 7 fictions, but Requiem is the only one that goes into its history, when it describes the scene on "Confederate Decoration Day" in 1900 when Colonel Sartoris' sister, Virginia DuPre, officially unveils it in front of a large (but presumably all white) crowd that includes an aged group of Confederate veterans who celebrate the moment with a last 'rebel yell' (188).
