The Digital Yoknapatawpha Project

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).

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.

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).

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.

Grier boy goes to an Army Recruiting Station in Memphis in pursuit of his brother.