Jefferson Square Monument in The Sound and the Fury (Location)

Display Label: 
Confederate Monument
Map Icon: 
Statue
Authority : 
Faulkner map
X: 
1285
Y: 
824
Description: 

The Confederate monument at the center of the Courthouse Square is the scene of the novel's last event, which is both deeply moving and deeply ironic. According to Requiem for a Nun, which provides the most details about the statue and its history, is was erected in 1900. The narrator of the novel's last section describes it as a "Confederate soldier [who] gazes with empty eyes beneath his marble hand in wind and weather" (319), and in Benjy's mind it one has to drive around the Square by going to its right.

Role: 
Site of Event
Status: 
Continuous
Types: 
Square Monument

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