During his years out west in The Hamlet Jack Houston works for a while as "a longshoreman on the Galveston docks"; in "a Galveston brothel" he meets the woman with whom he lives in Galveston and El Paso in a common law marriage (234).
In The Hamlet Jack Houston works in El Paso as a locomotive fireman for several years; he lives there with a woman he met in "a Galveston brothel" (234).
Jason complains to the sheriff who will not help him pursue Miss Quentin and the money she took that Yoknapatawpha "is not Russia, where just because he wears a little metal badge, a man is immune to law" (304). Presumably Jason is referring to the Soviet Union, where a totalitarian government had been in power since the Russian Revolution of 1917 - but it's also clear that Jason's reference, like all his generalizations, combines bigotry with ignorance.
Among the more exotic inhabitants of Jefferson are the characters whom Charles Mallison identifies as "two Finns," although confusingly they escaped "from Russia in 1917" (236). Finland, of course, borders Russia. The 1917 Russian Revolution produced a lot of refugees, but Charles does not explain how these "Finns" came to be among that group.
California figures as an "Out of Yoknapatawpha" location in over a dozen texts. Given the significance of Hollywood to Faulkner himself - for over two decades he worked there often as a screenwriter - it seemed worthwhile to separate out the texts that make specific reference to that part of the state. Hollywood has been home to the American movie industry since the 1920s. Faulkner began working there in 1932, but never felt at home in the place. The first time "Hollywood" appears in his texts is in the "Appendix" to The Sound and the Fury that he wrote in the mid-1940s.
California appears in over a dozen of the fictions, in all but two of them as a state. It seems worthwhile to describe separately the two instances which use the historic California as a setting. In Light in August Calvin Burden sails to California when he runs away from his New England home at age twelve. This is around 1820, several decades before the Gold Rush brought thousands of other Americans there.
Jason's first stop in Mottson is at this "filling station," where "they" tell him that the railroad cars carrying the show can be found on a siding at the train station (308).
Jason Compson's first stop in Mottson is at this "filling station," where "they" tell him that the railroad cars carrying the show can be found on a siding at the train station (308). The Sound and the Fury doesn't say who "they" are - whether customers or employees - nor does it describe the filling station. But it seems significant that Jason's last stop in Jefferson before setting out on his pursuit of his niece and the money she took from him is also a "filling station" (305).
