Submitted by padgettjb@breva... on Thu, 2016-12-22 13:40
The novel includes an unusual reference to "white women" and "Negroes" (149). The text brings these two groups together as the people in Yoknapatawpha who are equally threatened by the existence of Grumby's gang of "Independents" - though the "white women" are "frightened" while the Negroes are "tortured" (149), and that it's hard to see what place Negro women occupy in this phrasing.
Submitted by padgettjb@breva... on Thu, 2016-12-22 13:15
This auditor is mentioned by an unnamed lieutenant who has damaged a mule pen fence while re-taking livestock Rosa Millard has acquired from the Union army using forged orders. The lieutenant gives Rosa a voucher worth $10 to pay for the damaged fence, then asks her not to change the amount to a higher amount because, as he says, "if in about four months the auditor should find a warrant in the records for a thousand dollars to Mrs Rosa Millard, I would have to make it good" (146).
