Mrs. Grier gives no hint of where she grew up when she tells her son about the way her mother reacted to her brother's determination to enlist during the first World War. Our assumptions that it was on a farm and somewhere in the Frenchman's Bend area of Yoknapatawpha are entirely speculative.
In both "Two Soldiers" and "Shall Not Perish" Mrs. Res Grier mentions the home where she grew up. She tells her son, for example, how her mother reacted to her brother's determination to enlist "in that other war," World War I ("Two Soldiers," 84). But she never provides any clues about where her home was. We are assuming that she grew up on a farm somewhere in the Frenchman's Bend area of Yoknapatawpha, but that is basically a speculation.
