Varner's Store in "The Hound" (Location)

Varner's general store serves as the social center for the farmers in this story. They gather to sit or squat and talk under the "wooden awning" of its "veranda" or front porch (156). Although Faulkner never says so explicitly in this story, elsewhere in the Yoknapatawpha fictions this store is in Frenchman's Bend; it is owned by Will Varner and run by his son Jody.