The Sound and the Fury, 191 (Event)

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Submitted by grdenton@memphis.edu on Wed, 2014-06-04 17:12
Text: 
The Sound and the Fury
Location: 
Jefferson Drugstore|Christian's Drugstore|West's Drugstore in The Sound and the Fury (Location)
Page Number: 
191
Order within Page: 
1
First 8-10 words of event: 
We got to talking about crops.
Page Event Ends: 
191
Era: 
The Twenties (1920-1929)
Characters Present: 
Jason Compson
Unnamed Drummer
Characters Mentioned: 
Unnamed Financial Advisors
Narrative Status: 
Narrated
Date: 
Friday, April 6, 1928
Notes: 

Jason goes to the front of the store where he meets an unnamed drummer. They walk up the street together to talk about the crops. Jason claims that "Cotton is a speculator's crop" because the market gets the farmer to plant the crop, but all the farmer gets out of is a "red neck and a hump in his back." He says cotton farmers do not make a "red cent more than a bare living," but the money goes to the business men he calls "dam eastern jews (not the religion, he makes a point to say)."
cotton
cent
crop
bare living
American

Summary: 

Jason asks a "drummer" (i.e. a traveling salesman) to go to the drugstore for "a dope" (i.e. a Coca-cola, which in 1927 contained cocaine and in the South was popularly referred to as "dope," 191). There they talk about cotton as a crop and a commodity.

Chronological Order: 
17.20
Indeterminate Date Range: 
Keywords: 
Cola Race Labor Commodities_Speculation Jews Anti-Antisemitism "American"
Actions:
Economic›Investing
Cultural Issues:
Agriculture›Cotton | Cultural Identity›American | Economy›Economic speculation | Ethnicity›Jewish | Prejudice›Anti-Semitism

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