Submitted by sperkins@stanfo... on Mon, 2014-08-11 22:27
As Dilsey, Frony, Luster, and Benjy walk to church, they pass fellow churchgoers: "They emerged from the cabins and struggled up the shaling levee to the road - men in staid, hard brown or black, with gold watch chains and now and then a stick; young men in cheap violent blues or stripes and swaggering hats; women a little stiffly sibilant, and children in garments bought second hand of white people" (291).
Submitted by sperkins@stanfo... on Mon, 2014-08-11 22:13
A visiting clergyman from St. Louis, Reverend Shegog gives the Easter sermon at the Negro church in Jefferson. Physically he is unimpressive: "The visitor was undersized, in a shabby alpaca coat. He had a wizened black face like a small, aged monkey" (293). But he possesses a powerful voice: the congregation soon forgets "his insignificant appearance in the virtuosity" of his voice (293).
Submitted by dotty.dye@asu.edu on Mon, 2014-08-11 17:22
According to Albert, the people of Mottson who react to the smell from the Bundrens' wagon include "ladies" rushing away "with handkerchiefs to their noses, and a "crowd of hard-nosed men and boys standing around the wagon" (203).