Submitted by dorette.sobolew... on Fri, 2014-04-25 15:31
Het's history remains an enigma. No one in the town knows how old she is:"She was about seventy probably, though by her own counting . . . she would have to be around a hundred" (249). Het lives in the poorhouse and her "long rat-colored cloak trimmed with what forty or fifty years ago had been fur" (249) reveals her impoverishment. She makes regular visits to the kitchens in Jefferson to receive food. In "Mule in the Yard" Het is Mannie Hait's confidant who helps the latter to communicate with I.O. Snopes.
Submitted by thagood@fau.edu on Fri, 2014-04-25 08:38
While walking on the streets of Boston, Massachusetts, in The Sound and the Fury Quentin Compson remembers sitting "on the dry leaves that whispered a little with the slow respiration of our waiting" while hunting possums at night in the woods with Versh and Louis Hatcher (115).
Submitted by thagood@fau.edu on Thu, 2014-04-24 16:41
Quentin sees this "old man eating something out of a paper bag" (112) when he gets off the interurban car in the town near Cambridge. When he passes the same spot later he notes that the man is gone.
