Like her father, Ruby's brother is determined to keep her apart from Frank, the man she loves. He tells his sister he's going to kill him, "in his yellow buggy" (58). His ambush is foiled by her.
"Frank" is mentioned by Ruby in the bitter conversation she has with Temple. He was a young suitor who wanted to elope with her, but when he insisted on going back to her house to tell her father about their intentions, "father shot him" (58). As Ruby says, Frank "wasn't a coward" (58). To Ruby's brother, who also wants to kill him, Frank is "the goddam son of a bitch in his yellow buggy" (58) - a detail that suggests Frank might be more prosperous than her family.
Ruby tells Temple just enough about her thwarted romance with Frank to suggest that her family home was probably in the country, not a city. It's across a small bridge, has a "path" in front rather than a sidewalk, and a porch (58). But Ruby's brief narrative provides no clue as to what part of the country it stands in, so the location we picked (at the juncture of three states) is purely conjectural.
In Sanctuary Ruby Lamar tells Temple Drake just enough about her thwarted romance with Frank to suggest that her family home was in the country, not a city. It's across a small bridge, has a "path" in front rather than a sidewalk, and a porch (58). But Ruby's brief narrative provides no clue as to what part of the country it stands in, so the location we picked (at the juncture of three states) is purely conjectural.
Grant rose to the rank of Major General during the fighting in the western theater of the Civil War, and was in command of the "Vicksburg campaign" of 1862-1863. According to the narrative, he "came through the county" of Yoknapatawpha during that campaign (8). Historically, during his first (aborted) advance on Vicksburg in December, 1862, Grant set up his headquarters in Oxford briefly.
This is the young man "at school," whom Temple notices in Dumfries when she stops there with Popeye stops in his car. The reader never sees him, but Temple says "he was almost looking right at me!" (140).
One of Temple's many suitors and dates in Sanctuary, this boy is the one that she went out with sometime before the story begins, making the unnamed girl who liked him mad because, Temple says, afterwards "he never asked her for another date" (57).
This is the girl who told the Dean that Temple was "slipping out at night," in retaliation for the fact that Temple went out "with a boy she liked" (57).
Referred to simply as "the Dean," the administrator who puts Temple on academic probation "for slipping out at night" (57), i.e. for dating on weeknights, is presumably the Dean of Women Students.
This icon represents the various people who see Temple in the evenings, as she hurries to or from a date. The group includes "townspeople taking after-supper drives," "bemused faculty-members" and graduate students (28).
