The Digital Yoknapatawpha Project

In The Sound and the Fury Jason visits "the printing shop" in Jefferson looking for blank checks that he can substitute for the actual checks Caddy sends Mrs. Compson (216). (Characters in "Death Drag" get their printing done at the newspaper office.)

The place Earl refers to when he suggests that Jason "get a lunch at Rogers'" is a restaurant on the Square near the hardware store (216). It - and Rogers himself - are described in detail in Faulkner's previous novel, Flags in the Dust. In five later texts the restaurant on the Square is referred to under four different names; we assume that in Faulkner's imagination they are all the same 'Jefferson restaurant,' though it is of course possible that there is more than one restaurant on the Square.

Jason goes to the livery stable to retrieve the hack to drive Caddy's daughter Quentin by for her to see.

Memphis is the closest city to Yoknapatawpha; as Jason notes near the end of his section, "I was within sixty-seven miles of there once this afternoon" (245). Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha texts often link Memphis, the big city, with decadence. It is the home of Jason Compson's mistress Lorraine, who is presumably a prostitute. Specific Memphis locations mentioned in the novel are Beale Street, famous for its night clubs and brothels, and Gayoso Street, the site of the elegant Gayoso Hotel.

Jason Compson refers in anti-Semitic terms to New York City and what he views as the exploitative practices of the business leaders and stockbrokers there.

The hardware store on the Square where Jason Compson works. Most of its customers are farmers from the county, whom Jason calls "rednecks" (211), and stocks merchandise like "cultivators" (189) and "hame strings" (195). It's owned by a man named Earl. In the earlier novel Flags in the Dust the hardware store is owned by someone named Watts, and in later fictions it's owned by Ike McCaslin. Faulkner tries to straighten out these inconsistencies in The Mansion (see page 355), but the passage may leave readers more confused.

Both the novel's Quentin's are associated (briefly) with the town's school system. The male Quentin remembers how impatient he used to get in elementary school for the school day to end. The female Quentin is driven to the high school by her uncle Jason, though she doesn't wait for the end of the school day to leave. Jason refers to "the school house" (188), so we are putting elementary and high school together into one location. The text gives no clue about where it is located in town, however.