Submitted by chlester0@gmail.com on Thu, 2014-07-10 14:17
The Catholic priests at the monastery in California teach Calvin Burden I to read the bible in Spanish and to sign his name; Nathaniel mentions other priests in the country where he and Juana met (presumably Old Mexico).
The county courthouse sits in the center of a square in the center of Jefferson. It is also spatially, politically and socially the center of Yoknapatawpha, and appears in many of the fictions Faulkner sets in the county. We use this location for scenes that take place in unspecified places in town, like the Jefferson streets Jason spends so much of his section driving or chasing through. But in The Sound and the Fury the courthouse and statue also are the site of very specific events.
Submitted by chlester0@gmail.com on Mon, 2014-07-07 17:22
The Jefferson doctor who appears twice in the novel is not named. Some years before the events of the story, he arrives on the scene, a cabin near Hightower's house, after Hightower delivered the stillborn Negro baby; he is the same doctor whom Byron Bunch contacts when Lena goes into labor in the cabin on the Burden place, but again arrives too late, this time after Hightower has successfully delivered the baby.
Submitted by chlester0@gmail.com on Mon, 2014-07-07 17:10
She and her husband live in a cabin "immediately behind" Hightower's house (73). Her husband leaves her to get help in the middle of her labor; when Hightower arrives in response, he finds her "on her hands and knees on the floor, trying to get back into bed, screaming and wailing" (74). With Hightower's help she delivers the baby, but it is "already dead" - "doubtless injured when she left the bed" (74).
Submitted by chlester0@gmail.com on Mon, 2014-06-30 17:49
Part of the time Christmas is on "the street which was to run for fifteen years" he spends in Chicago and Detroit, living and eating "with negroes" (225) as a Negro himself. He fights with any of the black men "who call him white" (225).
