Submitted by ben.robbins@fu-... on Mon, 2016-02-29 10:13
Both "Gold Is Not Always" and Go Down, Moses mention the pasture on the McCaslin-Edmonds place in which the mules that belong to Roth Edmonds and are used by the tenant farmers can graze.
Submitted by ben.robbins@fu-... on Mon, 2016-02-29 10:00
Boon and Isaac McCaslin take a train to Memphis where Boon frequents a saloon using a dollar Isaac gives to him, and gets progressively more drunk in the train station's wash-room and a restaurant. The text describes bustling life in the city's streets with "the big Norman draft horses, the Pecherons; the trim carriages from which the men in fine overcoats and the ladies rosy in furs descended and entered the station" (221).
Submitted by jburgers@gc.cuny.edu on Sat, 2016-02-27 11:50
Jack Houston's farm is "three miles away" from Frenchman's Bend (186); it is located in "the hills," at least "a mile" away from the "rich, broad, flat river-bottom country" where the hamlet sits (190). He grew up in his parents' "old pre-Civil War house" - described as "no mansion, owning no columns, [but] too big for three" (237). After he returns to Yoknapatawpha and marries, he builds a "new house on a new site nearer the road" (238).
Submitted by jburgers@gc.cuny.edu on Sat, 2016-02-27 11:48
Although Faulkner changes Houston's first name between texts, he describes Houston's farm essentially the same way in all 4 of them. The Hamlet goes into the most detail about it. There it is located in "the hills," at least "a mile" away from the "rich, broad, flat river-bottom country" where the hamlet sits (190). Houston grew up there, in his parents' "old pre-Civil War house" - described "too big for three" people, but "no mansion, owning no columns" (237). After an absence from Yoknapatawpha he returns to marry, building a "new house on a new site nearer the road" (238).
Submitted by jburgers@gc.cuny.edu on Sat, 2016-02-27 11:47
On his quest for goats, Suratt travels from Frenchman's Bend to Ben Quick's farm, going to the "river bridge" and then "a little more than a mile beyond it" (91); we are assuming "beyond" means "on the other side of the bridge," but that is a speculation. The farm is described as a "neat well-kept house with a big barn and pasture" (91).
Submitted by jburgers@gc.cuny.edu on Sat, 2016-02-27 11:44
Ratliff heads "six miles in the opposite direction" from Ben Quick's farm in a failed attempt to sell a sewing machine - and as part of his scheme to get Flem Snopes to buy Quick's goats (91).
Submitted by jburgers@gc.cuny.edu on Sat, 2016-02-27 11:18
This is the church "a mile away" from the Whiteleaf store, from which the pews are fetched "for their litigants and their clansmen and witnesses" in the two civil trials at the end of the novel (356).
Submitted by jburgers@gc.cuny.edu on Sat, 2016-02-27 11:15
In The Hamlet "Whiteleaf" is the name of a creek, a hamlet and a store. There is good reason to think that when he created these locations Faulkner was thinking of the real Yellow Leaf creek, which flows through the southeast corner of Lafayette County into the Yocona River, but even better reason to think that, as was invariably the case, he was willing to shift real places around to suit the imaginative needs of a particular story.
Submitted by jburgers@gc.cuny.edu on Sat, 2016-02-27 10:59
There are two banks in Jefferson. But this is the bank that Flem Snopes takes over, a future event which The Hamlet alludes to. It was founded and for a long time directed by (Old) Bayard Sartoris.
