Submitted by jburgers@gc.cuny.edu on Tue, 2016-04-19 00:02
In "Lizards in Jamshyd's Courtyard," and again when Faulkner re-tells the story of the trick Flem Snopes plays on V.K. Ratliff and his partners in The Hamlet, Uncle Dick Bolivar is a very old man who lives at some distance from Frenchman's Bend in a "mud-daubed hut in the river bottom five or six miles from any road" (144, 381). Since Ratliff says he is going "up the bottom" to fetch Uncle Dick, we are assuming he lives upriver, or east, of Yoknapatawpha (378).
Submitted by jburgers@gc.cuny.edu on Mon, 2016-04-18 23:59
There is no clear indication where in Frenchman's Bend Freeman lives, but Eck and Wall try to capture their horse on the "blind lane [at] Freeman's" that dead ends in a set of "eight-foot fences" (353).
Submitted by jburgers@gc.cuny.edu on Mon, 2016-04-18 23:58
Bookwright and Quick chase their horses to three miles west of this imaginary place, which may be in a different county. Burtsboro Old Town is not mentioned elsewhere in Faulkner - though Intruder in the Dust will include a reference to a 'Peddlers Field Old Town' - and there is town named Burtsboro in Mississippi.
Submitted by jburgers@gc.cuny.edu on Mon, 2016-04-18 23:57
In The Hamlet Bookwright and Quick chase their runaway horses to a place three miles west of "Burtsboro Old Town," which may be in a different county. This "Old Town" is not mentioned elsewhere in Faulkner - though Intruder in the Dust will include a reference to a 'Peddlers Field Old Town.'
Submitted by jburgers@gc.cuny.edu on Mon, 2016-04-18 13:33
The "negro who found the gun" that Mink Snopes tried to get rid of lives in a cabin a mile from Mink's place; it is described as "smaller and shabbier than" Mink's own "broken-backed cabin" (276, 80).
Submitted by jburgers@gc.cuny.edu on Mon, 2016-04-18 13:28
The "negro who finds the gun" that Mink Snopes tries to get rid of in The Hamlet lives in a cabin a mile from Mink's place; it is described as "smaller and shabbier than" Mink's own "broken-backed cabin" (276, 80). Elsewhere Frenchman's Bend is described as a very white part of Yoknapatawpha, and the few Negroes who live there mainly work as servants for white families, but see also the entries for Negro Farm near Bend and Nate's Cabin in this index.
Submitted by jburgers@gc.cuny.edu on Mon, 2016-04-18 13:22
Texas is referred to at several different points in the novel. For example, during his years in the west Jack Houston works in West Texas, El Paso and Galveston; the latter two Locations have their own entries in the index. As in many other texts, Texas also appears as the place where people in Yoknapatawpha can go to run away from trouble. When Eula Varner gets pregnant, her three main suitors disappear; according to her father: "them damn tomcats are half way to Texas now" (160).
Submitted by jburgers@gc.cuny.edu on Mon, 2016-04-18 13:17
The unnamed farmer whose barn Ike Snopes raids for food lives on a "barren scrap of hill land" on which he managed to raise a large family (211). We have to speculate about its location; the only clue the text provides is that it is five miles from Houston's place (215).
Submitted by jburgers@gc.cuny.edu on Mon, 2016-04-18 13:13
In The Hamlet the unnamed farmer whose barn Ike Snopes raids for food lives on a "barren scrap of hill land" where he managed to raise a large family (211). We have to speculate about its location; the only clue the text provides is that it is five miles from Houston's place (215).
