Compson Inset: Barn in The Sound and the Fury (Location)

Location Key: 
Display Label: 
Barn and Pigpen
Map Icon: 
YoknapatawphaInset
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Context (text, as interpreted)
X: 
1760
Y: 
1184
Description: 

During the years covered by the Benjy's and Quentin's memories, the barn at the back of the Compson place contains a number of horses and cows, with a pen next to it for the family's pigs. By the time Benjy passes it in 1928, the "stalls are all open" and the "roof is falling" apart (12), though the aged horse Queenie is still there someplace. It is in "the high sweet emptiness of the barn" that the adolescent Quentin has his first and perhaps only sexual encounter, with Natalie, and into the pigpen - or as he calls it, "the hogwallow" - that he leaps to cover himself with muck after Caddy interrupts them (134, 136).

Role: 
Site of Event
Status: 
Continuous
Types: 
Barn; Livestock Lot
True X: 
1325
True Y: 
894

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