Jefferson sits on top of what Faulkner's fictions often refer to as a plateau. This "big hill" is the one that you have to climb when, like Pap and his son, you approach the town from the southeast (127).
The road between Frenchman's Bend and Jefferson is twelve miles long. According to the story, along the way it travels "up them long hills" and then "down the hills" (124).
