The Forks (Location Key)

Jason Compson calls this place, where the road out of Jefferson branches into two, "the forks" when he has to stop there and ask a man which of the roads was taken by the Ford carrying his niece and the man in the red tie (The Sound and the Fury, 238). Lucius Priest calls it "the fork" when, at the other end of Faulkner's career, he explains how the road that branches off northeast toward the Edmonds' plantation goes "in the wrong direction" from Memphis (The Reivers, 59).