Submitted by padgettjb@breva... on Sun, 2016-11-20 00:50
Louvinia mentions "Unc Few Mitchell" to help Bayard and Ringo appreciate the performance Colonel Sartoris puts on for the Union troops who had ridden up to the plantation in search of him. According to her, he was "born loony" (34, 73). From the way she talks about him, it seems very likely that he is another enslaved person on the Sartoris plantation, but that is not explicitly said.
Between the moment when they see the buck in the sunset and their arrival back at the feed lot, Mister Ernest and the boy travel through woods that are sometimes so dense they can't see any stars to guide them.
Between the moment when they see the buck in the sunset and their arrival back at the feed lot, Mister Ernest and the boy travel through woods that are sometimes so "dense" they can't see any stars to guide them ("Race at Morning," 307).
Submitted by rlcoleman@usout... on Sat, 2016-11-19 11:47
There are both "hands and tenants" on Mister Ernest's property (308). The narrator does not define the difference, but presumably the "hands" work for a salary, and the "tenants" farm a parcel of land for a share of the crop after it is harvested. The narrator's parents were among the "tenants"; no other members of either group are described, but it's likely that there are blacks as well as whites among them.
Submitted by rlcoleman@usout... on Sat, 2016-11-19 11:41
Mister Ernest's wife died of unspecified causes three years prior to the time of the narrative in "Race at Morning" - that is, a year prior to Mister Ernest adopting the narrator.
Submitted by rlcoleman@usout... on Sat, 2016-11-19 11:36
The narrator calls the man with whom his mother ran off "two years ago" the "Vicksburg roadhouse feller" (307). "Roadhouse" is a dialect term for an inn or tavern on the side of a road. This man may have worked there, or perhaps the phrase just means the roadhouse is where he and "maw" met (307).
Submitted by rlcoleman@usout... on Sat, 2016-11-19 11:27
The unnamed twelve-year-old narrator of "Race at Morning" calls his father "pap" (307). He leaves his son behind when he leaves the tenant cabin he lives on at Mister Ernest's place, presumably to search for his wife, who has herself run off with a "durn Vicksburg roadhouse jake" (308). He never returns for his son.
Submitted by rlcoleman@usout... on Sat, 2016-11-19 11:23
Maw, the unnamed mother of the narrator, abandons him and his father two years before the story takes place, when she "took off in the middle of the night with a durn Vicksburg roadhouse jake without even waiting to cook breakfast" for her son (308).
Submitted by rlcoleman@usout... on Sat, 2016-11-19 11:16
The party of hunters at "the Hollyknowe camp" are one of several other parties who are hunting in the woods during the season (303). Their camp is located 28 miles from the narrator and Mister Ernest's home in Van Dorn.
Submitted by rlcoleman@usout... on Sat, 2016-11-19 11:13
The hunters camped out near Hog Bayou are one of several other parties who are hunting in the woods during the season. Their camp is about fifteen miles from the Yoknapatawpha group's, and they are unknown to the story's 12-year-old narrator.
