"Mule in the Yard", 249 (Event)

Page Number: 
249
Order within Page: 
1
First 8-10 words of event: 
It was a gray day in late January,
Page Event Ends: 
249
Era: 
The Depression (1930-1940)
Characters Present: 
Narrative Status: 
Narrated
Date: 
Saturday, January 20, 1934 to Wednesday, January 31, 1934
Notes: 

The story is dated contemporary when Faulkner wrote it, which, according to Theresa Towner and James B. Carothers in Reading Faulkner: Collected Stories, "is uncertain, it may have been written in the late winter or early spring of 1933-34. The story was published in August 1934 by Scribner's" (133). This story was later incorporated into Chapter 16 of The Town and narrated by Charles Mallison. The date of this day's events in The Town would be 1927, the year that Eula Varner dies.

Summary: 

Old Het walks from the poor house to the Hait house.

Chronological Order: 
13.00
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Keywords: 
poverty
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