Submitted by rlcoleman@usout... on Tue, 2014-05-20 18:03
To get to the bridge in The Sound and the Fury where he will commit suicide later, Quentin takes an "interurban" train to an unidentified town or small city some miles from Cambridge (105). The train follows a route parallel to the Charles River; the text does not say in which direction, east or west, but because the landscape he finds when he decides to get off the train is more rural - "the road went into the trees," for example (112) - it seems most likely that imaginatively, Faulkner located this second town to the west of Harvard.
Submitted by rlcoleman@usout... on Tue, 2014-05-20 17:47
The woman waits on Quentin in the bakery shop. According to Quentin, she looks "like a librarian" (125). She is very hostile to "them foreigners" in her neighborhood, and suspects that the little girl in her store may be shoplifting: "She'll hide it under her dress and a body'd never know it" (126).
