School Monk Attends

Fraser sends Monk to a "country school," "for one year" of "first-grade work" ("Monk," 48). But Monk himself cannot "remember where the school was" (48), nor does the narrative provide any details about it. "Country school" probably means a one-room school house, and presumably it is not far from Fraser's.

Cemetery in Pine Hills

In "Monk" Mrs. Odlethrop is buried somewhere in the vicinity of her house, perhaps on her own property but more likely in one of the many country grave yards that can be found in Yoknapatawpha.

Fraser House

The house where Monk lives for ten years with "an old man named Fraser" is not described at all ("Monk," 45). In Intruder in the Dust, published a decade after this story, Faulkner includes a location called "Fraser's store," but there is no explicit connection between these two "Fraser"s.

Mrs. Odlethrop's House

"Monk" refers to the house where Monk lives as a child with Mrs. Odlethrop as "a log house" (43). Faulkner sometimes uses the word "house" to refer to what we would call a "cabin," especially when it's a 'cabin' occupied by white people, but the only detail we get about the site is that Mrs. Odlethrop keeps "a loaded shotgun standing just inside the front door" (43). That detail is explained by what the narrative says about the section of Yoknapatawpha in which the house stands: in "the pine hill country in the eastern part of our county . . .

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