Cabins on Outskirts of Jefferson (Location Key)

While in a number of fictions there is a large Negro residential district northwest of the Square, in As I Lay Dying as the Bundrens come into Jefferson from the south they pass a number of "negro cabins" that border the road "on either hand" (229). In Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha fictions, "cabins" are usually occupied by blacks. However, race is not mentioned when the young narrator of "Two Soldiers" also enters town from the same direction, and no people are visible, but he can "smell breakfast cooking in the cabins" (88).