Submitted by chlester0@gmail.com on Mon, 2014-07-14 15:26
He discovers "traces of recent occupation" in the cabin beyond Joanna's house (290) and "reckons" that if there is anyone living in that place they would be Negroes.
Submitted by chlester0@gmail.com on Mon, 2014-07-14 15:08
Yoknapatawpha is served by a volunteer fire department, made up of "men and youths" who "desert counters and desks" in town to drive the "fire truck" out to Joanna Burden's (288). When they get there, the lack of nearby water turns them, "including the one who ground the siren," into part of the crowd of spectators (288).
Submitted by chlester0@gmail.com on Mon, 2014-07-14 15:03
Although the white people of Yoknapatawpha had avoided the Burden place for decades before the story begins, within minutes after her corpse is discovered in the burning house a huge crowd gathers there. It is comprised mostly of white men (who, the narrator pointedly says, "would not have allowed their wives" to call on Joanna while she lived there, 291-92), although the crowd includes "the women" too (289).
