In Light in August the place where the adolescent Joe has his first, violent encounter with sexuality and race is described as a "deserted sawmill shed" - a phrasing that leaves us in doubt about whether the mill or just the shed is "deserted" (156). It is enough "miles" from the McEachern place that Joe worries about how late he will "reach home" (155).
In Light in August the McEachern house is connected to the "highroad" by a lane that runs "straight," "bordered on each side by trees" (171). Like other 'highroads' in the fictions, this is an unpaved country road.
The "stable" where McEachern whips Joe Christmas in Light in August for his behavior (148, etc.) is also frequently called a "barn" (161, etc.). In its "loft" Joe hides the suit he bought (170).
Behind the barn at the McEachern's in Light in August is "a good-sized pasture" (162) It contains a spring in "a clump of willows" (158), which presumably is the source of the creek that flows beside the pasture "a quarter of a mile" away from the farm buildings (162). Beyond the pasture are trees: "the trunks of them choked with marshy undergrowth" (163).
The McEachern farm where Joe Christmas lives for almost a dozen years in Light in August is a modest, well-run, dour place. Although the text gives no indication of what McEachern grows in its "field" (152), the team that pulls McEachern's buggy is "stout, wellkept" (144). There are two milk cows, and an unspecified number of other cattle, including the "heifer" that Joe sells (161).
Submitted by crieger@semo.edu on Tue, 2015-09-22 16:48
This stable is on Doom's Plantation in "A Justice." The earlier story "Red Leaves" mentions Issetibbeha's horse, and suggests that the Indians traded their slaves to "the white men" for "horses" (316, 314), and in a number of other texts Faulkner's Indians trade their land for horses, but there's no evidence of horses in "A Justice"; in this story the stable contains a "pit" used for cockfighting (355).
Submitted by crieger@semo.edu on Tue, 2015-09-22 16:46
This cabin, where Sam Fathers' enslaved mother and her enslaved husband live in "A Justice," is located on Doom's Plantation. Herman Basket and Sam's "pappy," Craw-ford, build a fence around it.
Submitted by crieger@semo.edu on Tue, 2015-09-22 16:41
The cabin where Sam Fathers' enslaved mother and her enslaved husband live in "A Justice" is located on Doom's Plantation. Herman Basket and Sam's "pappy," Craw-ford, build a fence around it.
