Courthouse and Square in The Sound and the Fury (Location)

The county courthouse sits in the center of a square in the center of Jefferson. It is also spatially, politically and socially the center of Yoknapatawpha, and appears in many of the fictions Faulkner sets in the county. We use this location for scenes that take place in unspecified places in town, like the Jefferson streets Jason spends so much of his section driving or chasing through. But in The Sound and the Fury the courthouse and statue also are the site of very specific events. The Confederate monument on the Square which provides the setting for the novel's climactic event has its own Location entry. But in another suggestive moment, Jason thinks bitterly about the four clocks atop the courthouse and the pigeon droppings that have to be cleaned out of them "every year" (247).