Submitted by crieger@semo.edu on Thu, 2017-04-06 15:22
The story provides almost no details about the house Gavin Stevens lives in, other than that it has a "side door into the study" where he works (115), allowing the sheriff to visit Gavin without going through the main house. Along with the fact that Gavin's nephew also lives in the house, this is consistent with the way Gavin's home is described in more detail in the Snopes trilogy, as the old home of several generations in the Stevens family.
Submitted by crieger@semo.edu on Thu, 2017-04-06 10:49
Located close to the Courthouse Square in Jefferson, the two-story jail shows up in many of Faulkner's works. In "An Error in Chemistry," Joel Flint is put in the jail after confessing to killing his wife and then escapes before the next morning.
Submitted by crieger@semo.edu on Wed, 2017-04-05 17:50
Wesley Pritchel builds this house, "two miles from his own," for his daughter Ellie after she marries Joel Flint. It is described as near "the little cross-roads hamlet" (114) that, according to the story, is in a "remote country region" that is "twenty-odd miles" from Jefferson (113). The hamlet itself is never named, but the distance and description fits Faulkner's Frenchman's Bend, the hamlet in the novel of that name and a frequent setting for his fictions as a group.
Submitted by crieger@semo.edu on Wed, 2017-04-05 17:44
In "An Error in Chemistry" Wesley Pritchel builds this house, "two miles from his own," for his daughter Ellie after she marries Joel Flint. It is described as near "the little cross-roads hamlet" (114) that, according to the story, is in a "remote country region" that is "twenty-odd miles" from Jefferson (113). The hamlet itself is never named, but the distance and description fits Faulkner's Frenchman's Bend, the hamlet in the novel of that name and a frequent setting in his fictions as a group.
Submitted by crieger@semo.edu on Wed, 2017-04-05 17:24
Wesley Pritchel lives in a "remote back-country region" of Yoknapatawpha, "twenty-odd miles" from Jefferson (113). This suggests the Frenchman's Bend area in the county's southeast corner, though if the distance from town were shorter, the presence of Indian artifacts on the "good though small farm" that he owns would make the northern side of the county more likely (113). Pritchel lives alone on the farm in a "neat, tight little house" inside a "neat, bare litttle yard" inside a "neat picket fence" (128).
Submitted by crieger@semo.edu on Wed, 2017-04-05 17:17
In "An Error in Chemistry" Wesley Pritchel lives in a "remote back-country region" of Yoknapatawpha, "twenty-odd miles" from Jefferson (113). This suggests the Frenchman's Bend area in the county's southeast corner, though if the distance from town were shorter, the presence of Indian artifacts on the "good though small farm" that he owns would make the northern side of the county more likely (113). Pritchel lives alone as a widower on the farm in a "neat, tight little house" inside a "neat, bare litttle yard" inside a "neat picket fence" (128).
