Submitted by jburgers@gc.cuny.edu on Mon, 2017-01-02 12:22
In the local vernacular, a "bottom" refers to the landscape around a creek or small river. It is usually dense with brush, vines and small trees. Here the "bottom" is the where Mink wanders after killing Houston. It lies between his cabin and the rotting tree, but much of the time Mink is there he is lost or otherwise disoriented, and is between exact locations.
Submitted by jburgers@gc.cuny.edu on Fri, 2016-12-30 14:03
This "someone" in The Hamlet finds the buggy whip which either Eula Varner or Hoake McCarron lost when they were assaulted by the unnamed suitors (153).
Submitted by jburgers@gc.cuny.edu on Fri, 2016-12-30 00:06
This good Samaritan brings Eula home after the salesman who has been courting her took her to a dance in "a schoolhouse about eight miles away" - "and vanished" (147).
Submitted by jburgers@gc.cuny.edu on Fri, 2016-12-30 00:04
The "wife and family" of the unnamed drummer who courts Eula Varner, though nobody in Frenchman's Bend either "knew or cared" that he was married already (148).
Submitted by padgettjb@breva... on Tue, 2016-12-27 20:40
In his brief eulogy for Rosa Millard, Brother Fortinbride expresses his belief that in heaven, "there are men women and children, black white yellow or red, waiting for her to tend and worry over" (158). This unseen group is perhaps the most racially inclusive group in all the Yoknapatawpha fictions.
