Submitted by scott.t.chancel... on Sat, 2014-12-06 16:47
The museum in Jefferson that the narrator of "Shall Not Perish" and his mother tour before they return to Frenchman's Bend displays "pictures from all over the United States" (110). It's housed in "a house like a church," and inside is "cool and quiet" (111). It's the gift of "an old lady born and raised in Jefferson who died rich somewhere in the North and left some money to the town to build a museum with" (110).
Submitted by scott.t.chancel... on Sat, 2014-12-06 16:35
The museum in Jefferson that the narrator of "Shall Not Perish" and his mother tour before they return to Frenchman's Bend displays "pictures from all over the United States" (110). It's housed in "a house like a church," and inside is "cool and quiet" (111). It's the gift of "an old lady born and raised in Jefferson who died rich somewhere in the North and left some money to the town to build a museum with" (110).
Submitted by scott.t.chancel... on Sat, 2014-12-06 16:32
The De Spain place makes a deep impression on the country-bred narrator, with a yard "bigger than the farms I had seen," a drive "wider and smoother than the roads in Frenchman's Bend" and a house that seems to him "bigger than the courthouse" (106). His reaction is very similar to Sarty Snopes' when he first sees the De Spain mansion in "Barn Burning," but the houses are located in different places in Yoknapatawpha. In "Barn Burning" the De Spain plantation is in the country some distance from town.
Submitted by scott.t.chancel... on Sat, 2014-12-06 16:24
Courthouse Square is the physical and symbolic center of both Jefferson and Yoknapatawpha. We use it as the generic location for sites in the town that cannot be located more specifically. Here, for example, it represents the place where Mrs. Grier's grandfather enlisted in the Confederate army, an action that the text does not identify with any particular location, and the place where Solon Quick's bus drops her and her son off, which the text refers to simply as the spot "where the concrete streets began" (106).
Submitted by scott.t.chancel... on Sat, 2014-12-06 15:54
Mrs. Grier and her son travel on Solon Quick's bus to and from Frenchman's Bend and Jefferson "down the long straight stretch of Valley road" (106) connecting the hamlet and the town. It is while traveling home on this road that the son has his epiphany about "America" (115).
Submitted by scott.t.chancel... on Sat, 2014-12-06 15:41
In a direct reference to events in "Two Soldiers," the narrator remarks that "This was about the time of day that Pete and I would walk the two miles down to Old Man Killegrew's house last December, to listen to the radio tell about Pearl Harbor and Manila" (103).
Submitted by scott.t.chancel... on Sat, 2014-12-06 15:32
The nine-year old narrator of "Shall Not Perish" and his father, Mr. Grier, are working in "the field" on their seventy-acre farm at the beginning of the story (101), though the text gives no indication of what kind of crop they are working on.
Submitted by scott.t.chancel... on Sat, 2014-12-06 15:24
The nine-year old narrator and his father, Mr. Grier, are working in "the field" at the beginning of the story (101), though the text gives no indication of what kind of crop they are working on.
Submitted by scott.t.chancel... on Sat, 2014-12-06 15:18
Grier farm and farm house, home of the Griers. The seventy acres of land have been in the family for generations, as the narrator (the youngest Grier son) remarks that it "had outlasted the Griers before us because they had done right by it, and had outlasted Pete because while he was here he had done his part to help and would outlast Mother and Father and me if we did ours" (102).
Less than one hundred miles from Yoknapatawpha, Shiloh, Tennessee, was the scene of one of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War. In the South it was more commonly referred to as the Battle of Pittsburgh Landing, the name Faulkner uses in Absalom, Absalom! The fighting took place over two days (April 6-7, 1862). Almost 25,000 men were wounded or killed.