Submitted by jburgers@gc.cuny.edu on Sun, 2016-04-17 22:37
Labove lives in an "unheated lean-to" room attached to a house that belonged to a widow who lived between the school and Varner's store (122). He sleeps on a "thin pallet bed on the puncheon floor" (131).
Submitted by jburgers@gc.cuny.edu on Sun, 2016-04-17 22:35
In The Hamlet Labove lives in an "unheated lean-to" room attached to a house that belongs to a widow who lives between the school and Varner's store (122). He sleeps on a "thin pallet bed on the puncheon floor" (131).
Submitted by jburgers@gc.cuny.edu on Sun, 2016-04-17 16:43
Oxford is the real town in Mississippi where Faulkner lived and wrote for most of his life, and the original on which much of his fictional "Jefferson" is based. It is the home of the University of Mississippi. Will Varner tells Labove (who attends the University and plays on its football team) that "it aint but forty miles to Oxford" from Frenchman's Bend (118).
Submitted by jburgers@gc.cuny.edu on Sun, 2016-04-17 16:38
The place where Labove is raised is a "bleak puncheon-floored cabin on a barren little hill farm" (114). The narrator says it is in "the adjoining county" and "the next county" (113, 114); we are assuming this means the county to the south, but that's an assumption.
Submitted by jburgers@gc.cuny.edu on Sun, 2016-04-17 16:36
In The Hamlet the place where Labove grew up is a "bleak puncheon-floored cabin on a barren little hill farm" (114). His family still lives there. The narrator says it is in "the adjoining county" and "the next county" (113, 114); we are assuming this means the county to the south, but that's an assumption.
