When Horace goes downtown on his second day in Jefferson, he renews his acquaintance with the men he meets around the courthouse: "merchants and professional men," most of whom "remembered him as a boy" (112). They are not otherwise characterized.
This icon represents the various farmers and their wives who are described coming into Jefferson on the weekend. It includes the three women whom Horace sees getting down from a wagon and "donning various finery" on the street in front of his house, as well as "the women on foot, black and white, unmistakable by the unease of their garments," and the men "in slow overalls and khaki" who move in crowds through the town square and stand in throngs "listening" to the music playing on radios and phonographs in record and drug stores (111, 112).
Not called by his name until the second time he appears in Sanctuary, Isom (or "the negro driver," as he is referred to at first, 110) is the youngest member of the family that has served the Sartoris family since slavery days. In Flags in the Dust his character is much more fully developed; in Sanctuary he is in fact just "the negro driver."
The narrative describes Red's funeral procession "moving slowly through the restricted district where faces peered from beneath lowered shades, toward the main artery that led back out of town" (249). The narrator seems to assume readers will understand this description, and why the people in the neighborhood seem both interested and anxious about the funeral. Our map assumes this district was the all-white, middle class Normal Station neighborhood in the area of the University of Memphis.
The novel does not provide any clear indication where the brothel that Virgil and Fonzo visit twice is located, but according to a 1938 report on "Prostitution Conditions in Memphis," the city "tolerated" a "red light district located in the lower end of the city, a deteriorated section not far from the railroad and mainly inhabited by colored people," "chiefly along S. Mulberry Street." The location on our map is based on that information.
Like Jefferson in the fictions, Oxford in Sanctury has a courthouse and a square in the middle of town. As with Faulkner's fictional 'courthouse and square,' we use this location as our Location for 'events in Oxford that the narrative does not tie to a specific location,' such as when Temple remembers "couples strolling to church" in the town (152).
"The Coop," as the narrative calls the dormitory in which Temple lives, was an actual nickname. In 1930 women students at the University of Mississippi resided in two adjacent dormitories - Ricks and Ward - which were connected by a dining hall. According to A. B. Lewis, a student in the early twenties, "We called them collectively the 'coop,' and boys who frequented the 'coop' were called 'coop hounds.'"
Luke, the man from whom Gowan and the three Oxford town boys buy whiskey, lives half a mile outside Oxford, up a slope alongside the road to Taylor. Since his place is located so close to a main road, he is probably a farmer as well as a moonshiner, but the narrative does not let us see the place to know for sure.
"The Shack'll be open," says one of the town boys with whom Gowan has been drinking, adding that it's "at the depot" (33). The narrator calls the place "a confectionary-lunchroom," but it is open late at night too, and the one man inside it (wearing "a soiled apron") is willing to bring the young men the fixings - sugar, water and lemon - so they can make and drink what Gowan calls "whiskey sours" (33).
