Jefferson Negro Church in The Sound and the Fury (Location)

The Negro church where Dilsey worships is located on the edge of the black neighborhood. From the road it appears set on "a painted backdrop": beside "a cut of red clay crowned with oaks . . . a weathered church lifted its crazy steeple like a painted church" (292). Inside it is decorated for Easter "with sparse flowers from kitchen gardens and hedgerows, and with streamers of colored crepe paper" (292).