Ratliff describes the place where northern "goat-rancher" is setting up as "two thousand acres of as fine a hill-gully and rabbit-grass land as ever stood on one edge," and locates it "about fifteen miles west of Jefferson" (87).
The part of the county where Ike Snopes hides for several days with Houston's cow is "in the hills, among pines" (198), near a farm where he steals feed from the barn for both of them to eat. It includes a "spring" in "a clump of alder and beech" (202).
In The Hamlet the part of the county where Ike Snopes hides for several days with Houston's cow is "in the hills, among pines" (198), near a farm where he steals feed from the barn for both of them to eat. The spot includes a "spring" in "a clump of alder and beech" (202).
The "sagging broken-backed cabin" where Ab and his family begin working as tenant farmers for the Varners is a grim place: the porch is "sagging and stepless," the windows are "sashless," and the yard is "littered with rubbish - the ashes, shards of pottery and tin cans - of its last tenants" (22).
In The Hamlet the "sagging broken-backed cabin" where Ab and his family begin working as tenant farmers for the Varners is a grim place: the porch is "sagging and stepless," the windows are "sashless," and the yard is "littered with rubbish - the ashes, shards of pottery and tin cans - of its last tenants" (22). The brief description of the place in The Town focuses on the larger farm around it: "It was a farm so poor and small and already wornout that only the most trifling farmer would undertake it, and even they stayed only one year" (5).
Alison Hoake McCarron buries her husband in the same family graveyard "beside her father and mother"; the burial place is on an "oak and cedar knoll" (150).
The Hoake family graveyard, one of four different burial places in The Hamlet, is located on an "oak and cedar knoll" near the family's home; Alison Hoake McCarron buries her husband there as well, "beside her father and mother" (150).
The location referred to in this novel as Ike "McCaslin's farm" (390) raises several unanswerable questions. The large McCaslin plantation in northeastern Yoknapatawpha appears in a number of the fictions, but it is never referred to as a "farm." And as readers of Go Down, Moses know, where possession of the property is a major theme, Ike never owns it; by the time of The Hamlet it belongs to Roth Edmunds.
