Submitted by chlester0@gmail.com on Wed, 2014-07-16 17:05
This bootblack works in the Mottstown barber shop Christmas enters. The barbershop is identified as "a white barbership," but in that context the adjective refers to the patrons it serves (349). The race of the bootblack is not specified, although he performs the kind of job that is typically done in Faulkner's fiction by blacks. This bootblack notices that Joe is wearing "second hand brogans that are too big for him" (349).
Submitted by chlester0@gmail.com on Wed, 2014-07-16 17:03
When he enters Mottstown after his days on the run, Christmas stops first at "a white barbership" where "they shave him and cut his hair" (349) - the plural pronoun here is confusing; presumably only one barber does the work.
Submitted by chlester0@gmail.com on Wed, 2014-07-16 16:55
The mother whom Joe Christmas never knew was a young woman in Arkansas when she had a very brief relationship with "a fellow with the circus" that passed through her neighborhood (374). Nine months after that man is killed by her father, Milly dies giving birth to their child.
