Rouncewell Flower Shop (Location Key)

The Rouncewell flower shop figures briefly in The Town during the rivalry between Gavin Stevens and Manfred de Spain at the time of the Cotillion Ball. There are several Rouncewell businesses mentioned in earlier fictions: a boarding house and a "store" that Samuel Worsham Beauchamp breaks into that cannot be a florist's. The Town says that Mrs. Rouncewell owns this shop because "she loves funerals" (73), but how Faulkner imagined this shop in relation to those other Rouncewell enterprises isn't clear. (See the entries for Rouncewell Store and Rouncewell's Boarding House|Commercial Hotel.)