Pennsylvania (Location Key)

What in The Sound and the Fury Louis Hatcher calls that flood "way up yonder" took place, as Quentin Compson tells him, "way up in Pennsylvania" (114). This flood was one of the worst natural disasters in American history: the 1889 flood in Johnstown, in which over two thousand people lost their lives. Pennsylvania's two major cities - Pittsburgh and Philadelphia - are mentioned in Requiem for a Nun. Philadelphia is linked with "Chicago and Kansas City and Boston" as egregious examples of municipal political corruption in the U.S. (192). Pittsburgh is mentioned twice, and has its own entry in this index. Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, the site of the largest battle of the Civil War, also has a separate entry.