Submitted by jjoiner@keuka.edu on Sun, 2015-04-05 17:51
Ab Snopes' home is located "back in the hills," in particular near a "long red hill" (99); in Yoknapatawpha 'the hills' usually means the countryside east of town, but there's no way to say where this particular 'red' hill is. After turning from the road, Bayard, Ringo and Uncle Buck come to a creek bottom where there is a faint path that leads to this mule pen (100). This pen "was just like the one Ringo and Yance and I had built at home, only smaller and better hidden; I reckon [Ab] had got the idea from ours" (100).
Submitted by jjoiner@keuka.edu on Sun, 2015-04-05 17:44
In The Unvanquished Ab Snopes' cabin is located "back in the hills," in particular near a "long red hill" (99, 159); in Yoknapatawpha 'the hills' usually means the countryside east of town, but there's no way to say where this particular 'red' hill is. After turning from the road, Bayard, Ringo and Uncle Buck come to a creek bottom where there is a faint path that leads to this mule pen (100, 160). This pen "was just like the one Ringo and Yance and I had built at home, only smaller and better hidden; I reckon [Ab] had got the idea from ours" (100, 160).
Submitted by jjoiner@keuka.edu on Sun, 2015-04-05 15:58
The county courthouse sits in the center of a square in the center of Jefferson. It is also spatially, politically and socially the center of Yoknapatawpha, and appears in many of the fictions Faulkner sets in the county. At the end of the story, when Bayard and Ringo ride through town to Granny's grave, they "rode past the brick piles and the sooty walls that hadn't fallen down yet, and went on through what used to be the square" (115).
Submitted by jjoiner@keuka.edu on Sun, 2015-04-05 15:48
Where Granny is buried. At the end of the story when Bayard and Ringo return to fix the hand to Granny's grave, the landscape has changed, personifying Granny: "The earth had sunk too, now, after two months; it was almost level now, like at first Granny had not wanted to be dead either, but now had begun to be reconciled" (115).
Submitted by rlcoleman@usout... on Thu, 2015-04-02 21:50
Had-Two-Fathers' step-father is "one of the slaves which [Ikkemotubbe] inherited" from Moketubbe (203). Ikkemotubbe forces him to marry the enslaved woman who is already pregnant slave with Ikkemotubbe's child. This unnamed male slave is the other father in Sam's name, but it is not clear in the 1940 magazine version of the story whether the child of Ikkemotubbe that he raises named Had-Two-Fathers is Sam or - as seems more likely in the text - Sam's father. When Faulkner revised the story for publication in Go Down, Moses (1942), he cleared up the ambiguity.
