Jefferson Railroad Station in The Hamlet (Location)

Submitted by sfr on Wed, 2017-09-13 16:31
Text: 
The Hamlet
Location Key: 
Jefferson Railroad Station
Display Label: 
Railroad Station
Map Icon: 
Office/store
Authority : 
Text (when unambiguous)
Other Texts Location Appears In: 
"Go Down, Moses"
"Hair"
"Knight's Gambit"
"Mule in the Yard"
"The Tall Men"
"There Was a Queen"
"Uncle Willy"
As I Lay Dying
Flags in the Dust
Go Down, Moses
Intruder in the Dust
Light in August
Requiem for a Nun
Sanctuary
The Mansion
The Reivers
The Sound and the Fury
The Town
The Unvanquished
X: 
1136
Y: 
800
Description: 

The railroad station appears frequently in the Yoknapatawpha fictions, as the main portal linking Jefferson to the larger world. In The Hamlet in only appears once, obliquely, as the site through which the traveling salesman who has been courting Eula Varner flees after being attacked by the local young men who are competing for her attention.

Role: 
Site of Event
Status: 
Continuous
Types: 
Railroad Station

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