McLendon|Lendon House (Location Key)

This is another of Faulkner's locations that, like many of his characters, morph between texts. At the end of "Dry September," "John McLendon" drives up to "his neat new house, which is as "trim and fresh as a birdcage and almost as small, with its clean, green-and-white paint" (182). At the back is a "screen porch," where he presses his body "against the dusty screen" (183) - but most readers of the scene would say it is his wife who is the 'caged bird' in the family. In The Mansion "Mack Lendon" and his brothers live "in a big house with a tremendous mother weighing close to two hundred pounds" (205).