Submitted by tmtowner@utdall... on Thu, 2014-08-21 18:43
Turl thinks about possible alibis for his recent behavior, one of which would to be "in Mottstown on business" (161). Mottstown, seat of the county just south of Yoknapatawpha, appears often in Faulkner's fictions, though sometimes he spells it Mottson.
Submitted by tmtowner@utdall... on Thu, 2014-08-21 18:36
While a number of prominent men in Faulkner's fictions attend Harvard, and others go to Princeton, Major Hoxey is the only Ivy Leaguer in Yoknapatawpha who has gone to Yale.
Submitted by tmtowner@utdall... on Thu, 2014-08-21 18:31
Yale University is located in New Haven, Connecticut. While a number of prominent men in Faulkner's fictions attend Harvard, and others go to Princeton, Major Hoxey, in "Centaur in Brass," is the one Yoknapatawphan who goes to Yale. Monaghan, who first appears in Flags in the Dust, also went there before the First World War: in "Ad Astra" his immigrant father speaks sarcastically about his "fine friends, the fathers and mothers and sisters of them you met at Yale" (415).
