Submitted by ben.robbins@fu-... on Fri, 2016-02-26 06:55
The creek bottom lies four miles from the mansion at the McCaslin-Edmonds place. The creek itself is surrounded by fields, briars, and rotted logs and flows down from the McCaslin-Edmonds place. The dense vegetation blocks out the sunlight.
Submitted by ben.robbins@fu-... on Fri, 2016-02-26 06:52
In "Gold Is Not Always" and Go Down, Moses this "sort of glade" four miles away from the Edmonds place is where Lucas believes he will find buried treasure (230). It is a wild place, next to a creek bottom full of "brier and undergrowth and rotting logs and branches" (230).
Submitted by ben.robbins@fu-... on Fri, 2016-02-26 06:35
Lucas Beauchamp lives in one of the servant and tenant cabins on the McCaslin-Edmonds Place. Carothers Edmonds built it for Lucas and Molly Beauchamp when they married. At the center of the house is "the hearth on which even in summer a little fire always burned" (107). Behind it is a grassless yard through which a stone path runs. There are flower-beds planted with "prince's feather and sunflower, canna and hollyhock" (48), which are edged "with broken brick and bottles and shards of china and colored glass" (48).
Submitted by ben.robbins@fu-... on Fri, 2016-02-26 06:23
"Stable" may imply horses for most people, but in "A Point of Law," "Gold Is Not Always" and Go Down, Moses the stable on Roth Edmonds' plantation mainly houses mules (218). Edmonds clearly owns the stable, and in the second two texts Faulkner makes it clear that Edmonds also owns the mules stabled inside it.
Submitted by ben.robbins@fu-... on Fri, 2016-02-26 06:16
The commissary at the McCaslin-Edmonds Place is where the landlord's records are kept, and where the tenant farmers buy most if not all of their supplies. It is described in Go Down, Moses as a "long room with . . . ranked shelves of tinned food and tobacco and patent medicines, its hooks pendant with trace chains and collars and hames" (76), and its smell as that "of molasses and cheese and leather and kerosene" (93).
Submitted by ben.robbins@fu-... on Fri, 2016-02-26 06:09
The state penitentiary in Mississippi, better known as "Parchman Farm," is a maximum-security prison farm where inmates plow, chop, and pick cotton. It's located in the Delta in northwestern Mississippi.
Submitted by ben.robbins@fu-... on Thu, 2016-02-25 07:34
The McCaslin and Beauchamp plantations are "twenty-two miles" - half a day's ride - apart (287). The route between them includes "the long flat" section "about three miles" from the Beauchamps (10).
Submitted by ben.robbins@fu-... on Thu, 2016-02-25 07:31
In Go Down, Moses the McCaslin and Beauchamp plantations are "twenty-two miles" - half a day's ride - apart (287). The route between them includes "the long flat" section "about three miles" from the Beauchamps (10). We assume the road between them is essentially a continuation of the 'northeast road' that leads to the McCaslin place from Jefferson, but the novel doesn't say enough about the location of the "Warwick" - as Sophonsiba Beauchamp wants us to call her and her brother's plantation - to be sure of that (11).
