Compson Inset: Burgess House (Location Key)

The Sound and the Fury does not make clear how close the Burgess family lives to the Compson property, but when Jason thinks about what happened to Benjy the time he got outside the gate and tried "to say" something to the Burgess girl as she walked past on her way home from school (53), he notes that "her own father [was] looking at" Benjy at the moment (263). If Mr. Burgess was in his own yard, then presumably they lived across the street - and the "fence picket" with which he knocks Benjy out would have been pulled from his own fence (263).