The Digital Yoknapatawpha Project

The question of Linda Snopes' romantic future is answered several times, at least hypothetically, in The Mansion, by the 'husbands' that Ratliff and Gavin imagine she'll marry some day. In the first such musing, Ratliff describes how Stevens imagines that Linda will leave Jefferson and marry "the first strange young man that happens by" (153). On another occasion, Ratliff and Stevens together speculate about whether Linda has already met her future husband during her first two or three days in the "Grinnich Village" (169).

Ratliff speculates that Stevens sits around and waits for this imagined telegraph boy to bring him news of Linda Snopes.

Ratliff notes that, as the "new third president" of the bank, Flem Snopes acquires "a black automobile" (though not a Packard) and "a Negro too" - though unlike the Negro who drove de Spain, Flem's driver "never had no white coat and showfer's cap" (174). (This man might also be the driver who takes Linda Snopes to the Memphis train station, but he has a separate entry.)

The "old Methodist preacher" who presides at Eula's funeral in Jefferson is the same man who "who had baptised Eula" in Frenchman's Bend (163).

Flem uses "Miz Varner" - his mother-in-law and Eula's mother - in his scheme to become president of the bank (161).

As he had done in The Town, Ratliff goes to Rockyford to deliver "Miz" Ledbetter a new sewing machine.

Knowing her husband Henry's ability to lose money, Mrs. Armstid tries to hide their small amount of savings by burying "them five or six dollars or whatever they was" behind the outhouse (153).

Judge Stevens is Gavin Stevens' father and Charles Mallison's grandfather. He takes over as presiding judge of his son's lawsuit against Manfred de Spain when the previous judge recuses himself.

Judge Dukinfield had to recuse himself during the lawsuit between Gavin Stevens and Manfred de Spain.

They complete the audit (incorrectly) for Flem's "power-house brass business" (144).