Submitted by ben.robbins@fu-... on Thu, 2016-05-19 07:45
The place where Ike's annual hunting party made camp in the Delta had to move regularly, as the clearing of the land for agriculture kept spreading and the wilderness "retreating southward" (326). This location represents the likely place, two hundred miles from Jefferson, where they are camped during this story. What the text refers to as "the ultimate funneling tip" where the wilderness still exists (326) is probably the point at which the Yazoo River, "the River of the Dead of the Chocktaws" (324), joins the Mississippi.
Submitted by ben.robbins@fu-... on Thu, 2016-05-19 07:25
The 200-mile trip that the hunters take from Yoknapatawpha to their camp in the Delta gives Faulkner an opportunity to describe the interior of Mississippi in both spatial and temporal terms. Geographically, the they travel from the "cradling hills" in the east (324) to the "rich unbroken alluvial flatness" of the vast flood plain along the Mississippi River (319).
