Submitted by jburgers@gc.cuny.edu on Tue, 2016-04-19 12:08
The school that Varner's money built in Frenchman's Bend contains one room, in which children of all ages up to the late teens are taught during the months between harvest time and planting time. Attendance is apparently not mandatory.
Submitted by jburgers@gc.cuny.edu on Tue, 2016-04-19 00:02
Uncle Dick Bolivar is a very old man who lives at some distance from Frenchman's Bend in a "mud-daubed hut in the river bottom five or six miles from any road" (381). Since Ratliff says he is going "up the bottom" to fetch Uncle Dick, we are assuming he lives upriver, or east, of Yoknapatawpha (378).
Submitted by jburgers@gc.cuny.edu on Tue, 2016-04-19 00:02
In "Lizards in Jamshyd's Courtyard," and again when Faulkner re-tells the story of the trick Flem Snopes plays on V.K. Ratliff and his partners in The Hamlet, Uncle Dick Bolivar is a very old man who lives at some distance from Frenchman's Bend in a "mud-daubed hut in the river bottom five or six miles from any road" (144, 381). Since Ratliff says he is going "up the bottom" to fetch Uncle Dick, we are assuming he lives upriver, or east, of Yoknapatawpha (378).
