Light In August Inset: Max and Mame's House in Light in August (Location)
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Location Key:
Display Label:
Max and Mame's House
Map Icon:
OutOfYoknapatawpha
X:
1586
Y:
306
Description:
The house where Bobbie lives with Max and Mame is located a mile from corner where Joe used to wait for her. It is on a "gravel road" - i.e. beyond the town's paved "main street" (209, 211). The narrator calls it one of the "small, random, new, terrible little houses in which people who came yesterday from nowhere and tomorrow will be gone wherenot, dwell" (211). At least once it is the site of a sexual encounter between Bobbie and a john (198).
Role:
Site of Event
Status:
Continuous
Types:
Lower-class House; Brothel
True X:
2350
True Y:
300
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