The Digital Yoknapatawpha Project

When Young Anse moves "back into the hills," the “neighbors and strangers” in that most rural part of Yoknapatawpha leave him "severely alone" (6).

This "somebody" in the novel hears De Spain "passing in the road" as he hurries toward his burning barn (18).

This tailor makes Jody Varner's distinctive suit, a "glazed collarless white shirt" fastened with "a heaving gold collar-button" and a jacket of black broadcloth (7).

The "country school" Monk attends as a first-grader almost certainly was a one-room schoolhouse, and his schoolmates probably ranged in age from six to sixteen or so (48). But when Monk describes his experience there, he tells Gavin that "they [the students] would all read together out of the books," and that, although he was illiterate, "it was fine . . . to hear all the voices together," including his (48).