The land that the Fentrys farm in "Tomorrow" is one of the small "tilted and barren patches" that lie in the hills east of Jefferson. Their neighbor Mr. Pruitt, whose "land . . . was better" (95), wonders aloud that the Fentrys have even been able to "make a living for themselves and raise families and pay their taxes" from the corn and perhaps cotton they could grow on it (96).
Submitted by scott.t.chancel... on Fri, 2014-06-27 09:10
While the Grier boy is at the bus station in Jefferson, trying to get to Memphis, Mr. Foote remarks that the boy "might have been in Missouri or Texas either yestiddy, for all we know" (91).
Submitted by scott.t.chancel... on Fri, 2014-06-27 09:06
When the narrator gets to the Army Recruiting Station in Memphis, Pete Grier, who just enlisted there, is at the train station "in a detachment leaving this morning for Little Rock" (95). In Flags in the Dust Buddy MacCallum receives his basic training in Arkansas. This was during World War One, not Two, but presumably Faulkner has the same army base in mind.
Submitted by scott.t.chancel... on Fri, 2014-06-27 09:02
While the Grier boy is at the Army Recruiting Station in Memphis, the soldiers send for his brother, Pete, who is at the train station awaiting transport to Little Rock (95).
Submitted by scott.t.chancel... on Fri, 2014-06-27 08:59
Before sending him back to Yoknapatawpha, Mrs. McKellogg takes the Grier boy to her place in Memphis for a meal. She lives with her husband (an Army colonel) in a large apartment building with an elevator and a human operator, but the boy is unfamiliar with that kind of place. "I looked at it," he says about the building, "and if all that was her house, she sho had a big family.
Submitted by scott.t.chancel... on Fri, 2014-06-27 08:48
Before sending him back to Frenchman's Bend, Mrs. McKellogg takes the Grier boy to her place in Memphis for a meal. She lives with her husband (an Army colonel) in a large apartment building with an elevator and a human operator, but the boy is unfamiliar with that kind of place. "I looked at it," he says about the building, "and if all that was her house, she sho had a big family.
