Submitted by thagood@fau.edu on Thu, 2014-05-01 17:08
The drugstore in Jefferson contains a soda fountain where Jason goes several times, to talk with others about money and baseball, and to get a "dope" (191) and a "shot" (243) or a "headache shot" (251). In all three cases he is referred to a glass of Coca-Cola. (And in the first published text of the novel "coca-cola" replaced the manuscript's terms in the first and second instances.)
Submitted by thagood@fau.edu on Thu, 2014-05-01 17:04
The Methodist Church in Jefferson. Jason notes that the "sun was down beyond the Methodist church now, and the pigeons were flying back and forth around the steeple, and when the band stopped I could hear them cooing" (247).
Submitted by thagood@fau.edu on Thu, 2014-05-01 17:02
Methodists built one of the earliest churches in Jefferson: it's already there in 1838 when Thomas Sutpen and Ellen Coldfield get married in it in Absalom, Absalom!. Ellen's father, Goodhue Coldfield, is a "steward" in this church (11). Thirty years later, Judith Sutpen wants her father's funeral to be held in "that same Methodist church in town where he had married her mother" (151) - but that design falls through when the wagon carrying his corpse there overturns.
Submitted by thagood@fau.edu on Thu, 2014-05-01 16:58
Jason follows the Ford with Miss Quentin in it out of Jefferson to Ab Russell's farm, which he says is "about five miles" from Jefferson (242). He sees Ab in his lot before spotting the empty Ford behind the barn. Ab's field is one of the few in Yoknapatawpha that have already been plowed; crossing it gives Jason a headache and confirms his belief in his status as a victim.
Submitted by thagood@fau.edu on Thu, 2014-05-01 16:56
In The Sound and the Fury Jason follows the Ford with Miss Quentin in it from Jefferson to Ab Russell's farm, which he says is "about five miles" out of town (242). He sees Ab in his lot before spotting the empty Ford behind the barn. Ab's field is one of the few in Yoknapatawpha that have already been plowed; crossing it gives Jason a headache and confirms his belief in his status as a victim.
Submitted by thagood@fau.edu on Thu, 2014-05-01 16:52
At the place he calls "the forks," where the road out of Jefferson divides in two, Jason has to stop and ask a man which road was taken by the Ford carrying his niece and the man in the red tie (238).
Submitted by thagood@fau.edu on Thu, 2014-05-01 16:49
Jason Compson calls this place, where the road out of Jefferson branches into two, "the forks" when he has to stop there and ask a man which of the roads was taken by the Ford carrying his niece and the man in the red tie (The Sound and the Fury, 238). Lucius Priest calls it "the fork" when, at the other end of Faulkner's career, he explains how the road that branches off northeast toward the Edmonds' plantation goes "in the wrong direction" from Memphis (The Reivers, 59).
Submitted by thagood@fau.edu on Thu, 2014-05-01 16:35
The Merchants' and Farmers' Bank, the official name of the bank that was founded by Colonel Sartoris' son Bayard Sartoris, appears in many of the Yoknapatawpha fictions. In this early novel it is described as a defunct institution that has been torn down. Its papers and "junk" have been stored in the old opera house in Jefferson. (In the later novels in the Snopes trilogy, however, it is still very much in business decades after the events of this novel.)
Submitted by thagood@fau.edu on Thu, 2014-05-01 16:28
"Opera House" was the way playhouses were often referred to in towns where the religious community frowned on play-acting. "Opera" sounded culturally more respectable than plays, though actual operas were seldom staged in them. By the late 1920s the advent of movies had closed or taken over a lot of small town playhouses. In The Reivers, set in 1905, "balls or minstrel or drama shows" regularly take place there.
