Unnamed Jefferson Townspeople

Although 'the townspeople' as an entity plays a smaller role in The Sound and the Fury than in many other Yoknapatawpha texts, occasionally the narrative does indicate their presence. This is the most true in Jason's section, which is not surprising given his concern with his family's reputation and place in the eyes of those townspeople. For example, Jason notes "about a dozen people looking" at his niece and him while they fight on the way to school (188). Among the other groups he mentions or refers to are the men who apparently gathered in Jefferson the previous Christmas to shoot pigeons who were roosting in and fouling the clocks in the courthouse (247). When Luster drives the surrey to town, they pass "pedestrians" including "a group of half grown negroes," who ask Luster where he is going, and "another group of negroes" at the Confederate soldier monument (319).