The "quiet corner" where Joe waits to meet Bobbie must be on the edge of the town (186). Nearby is a plowed field with "something growing in the furrows," and beyond that the "woods, trees" (189).
The "quiet corner" where Joe waits to meet Bobbie in Light in August must be on the edge of the town (186). Nearby is a plowed field with "something growing in the furrows," and beyond that the "woods, trees" (189).
The house where Bobbie lives with Max and Mame in Light in August is located a mile from corner where Joe used to wait for her. It is on a "gravel road" - i.e. beyond the town's paved "main street" (209, 211). The narrator calls it one of the "small, random, new, terrible little houses in which people who came yesterday from nowhere and tomorrow will be gone wherenot, dwell" (211). At least once it is the site of a sexual encounter between Bobbie and a john (198).
The "small, dingy, back street restaurant" that Max and Mame own in Light in August serves both food and sex: its waitresses are prostitutes from Memphis (172). The men who sit at its "long wooden counter lined with backless stools" are neither "farmers" nor "townsmen" - "They looked like people who had just got off a train and who would be gone tomorrow and who did not have any address" (174).
In Light in August the nearest town to the McEachern farm is a county seat - like Jefferson, it has a "courthouse tower" with a "muncipal clock" on it (173), and McEachern's lawyer has his office there. But it is described as a much rougher place than Jefferson. It is "a railroad division point" (173), that is, a place where trains change crews as they travel through. The presence of this transient population explains why there are "many men about the streets" (173), and a profitable demand for the Memphis prostitutes who work for Max.
All we know about this church that McEachern attends one Sunday in Light in August is that it is three miles from his farm and "not Presbyterian" (154).
In Light in August the Presbyterian church which the McEacherns ordinarily attend is "five miles away" from their farm; it takes "an hour to drive it" (147). It is the only place at which Joe ever sees "girls," though because "they are associated with Sunday and with church," "he can not notice them" (184).
Four miles away from the McEachern farm in Light in August is the schoolhouse in the country where Joe and Bobbie attend a dance. The school is "a oneroom building," surrounded by a "grove" of trees (203).
