Submitted by johnmcorrigan@g... on Sat, 2016-10-29 04:19
This is "the merchant" from whom Houston bought furniture on an installment plan for his new life with his new wife - though the character is unstable: a paragraph later the narrative refers to "the installment people" who don't want "to take the furniture back," as Houston requests, after that new wife dies (239). Presumably the merchant and the people are essentially the same.
Submitted by johnmcorrigan@g... on Sat, 2016-10-29 03:48
During the two months they occupy their new house, the Houstons hire a "negro woman to cook" for them (238). Besides the woman who cooks for the Varners, she is "the only other hired cook, white or black, in the country" (238).
Submitted by johnmcorrigan@g... on Sat, 2016-10-29 02:30
After Houston returns to Yoknapatawpha, he sometimes meets the "contemporaries" who remember him from the "youth" they shared, with whom he still occasionally gets together for "drinks or cards" (237).
