When describing the people who gather to stare at Joanna's murdered body and her burning house, the narrator refers, briefly but very specifically, to three categories of people who are not just from the county or the "immediate neighborhood" or from town (287): one of these categories consists of "casual Yankees" who, like "the poor whites" and "the southerners who had lived for a while in the north," identify the crime as the work of "Negro" and actually "hope" that Joanna had been "ravished" as well as murdered (288).
When describing the people who gather to stare at Joanna's murdered body and her burning house, the narrator refers, briefly but very specifically, to three categories of people who are not just from the county or the "immediate neighborhood" or from town (287): one of these categories consists of "southerners who had lived for a while in the north" who, like "the poor whites" and "the casual Yankees," identify the crime as the work of "Negro" and actually "hope" that Joanna had been "ravished" as well as murdered (288).
When describing the people who gather to stare at Joanna's murdered body and her burning house, the narrator refers, briefly but very specifically, to three categories of people who are not just from the county or the "immediate neighborhood" or from town (287): one of these categories consists of "poor whites" who, like "the casual Yankees" and "the southerners who had lived for a while in the north," identify the crime as the work of "Negro" and actually "hope" that Joanna had been "ravished" as well as murdered (288).
After leaving Doane's Mill to find Lucas Burch, Lena spends "almost four weeks" before she gets to the Yoknapatawpha road she is walking along at the start of the novel. We can assume the roads she has traveled have mainly been unpaved and rural. The narrative describes them as "a peaceful corridor paved with unflagging and tranquil faith and people with kind and nameless faces and voices" (7).
While not given a first name in Sanctuary, in Flags in the Dust the father of Clarence Snopes is I.O. Snopes. In the earlier novel he only runs the restaurant; his cousin Flem owns it.
