Sutpen's Store (Location Key)

After the Civil War, when his plantation has almost all been sold away from him, Sutpen's sole source of income is the "little crossroads store" he opens, "with a stock of plowshares and hame strings and calico and kerosene and cheap beads and ribbons" (Absalom!, 147). According to "Wash," it sits "upon the highroad" (539). In both texts its customers are the poor whites and blacks who live in the area. Wash Jones clerks in the store, and he and Sutpen regularly drink whiskey in the rear of the building just as they drank in the scuppernong arbor in the years before the war.