Sanctuary, 167 (Event)

Text: 
Page Number: 
167
Order within Page: 
3
First 8-10 words of event: 
He followed them into the day coach filled
Page Event Ends: 
170
Era: 
The Twenties (1920-1929)
Narrative Status: 
Narrated
Date: 
Saturday, May 25, 1929
Notes: 

Horace boards the train. He gets into the day coach and dozes. At dawn he wakes up and gets off the train to have breakfast. He then gets back on board into a different train car. He changes trains among a group of young college men. Two college youths sit behind Horace and manage to avoid paying for their train tickets.

Summary: 

On an impulse Horace travels by train to Oxford. The description of the trip suggests he takes three different trains to accomplish the journey, stopping once for "breakfast" and again later to "change" trains (168), but the actual route remains vague. (On the way back from Oxford to Jefferson later Horace only takes two different trains. The uncertainty in this description may be Faulkner's way of obfuscating the relative positions of Jefferson and Oxford, his imagined town and the real one on which it is based.)

Chronological Order: 
153.00
Indeterminate Date Range: 
Keywords: 
Movement_Train Segregation College_Life Eating Breakfast

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