Submitted by chad.jewett@uco... on Thu, 2014-01-02 14:20
The road on which Joe makes the last stage of his journey, a metaphorical "circle" (339) which turns out to be to Mottstown and his grandparents is described as "a broad gravelled road, a highway" (338). Although unpaved, and not a "highway" by modern standards, it is one of the major arteries of Yoknapatawpha.
Submitted by chad.jewett@uco... on Thu, 2014-01-02 14:15
The main north-south road through Jefferson is frequently traveled in the fictions, though most of the traffic is on the section north of town. Travel on the other portion is mainly connected with getting to and from Mottstown, the seat of the adjacent county to the south.
Submitted by chad.jewett@uco... on Thu, 2014-01-02 14:10
The church is twenty miles away from Jefferson. It contains the traditional pews and pulpit, but when Christmas invades it at night it is also described as having a "thick, cavelike gloom," which is increased by "two oil lamps" (322). The "churchyard" consists of "a pallid crescent of trampled and beaten earth, shaped and enclosed by undergrowth and trees," and nearby is at least one cabin, to which Roz is carried after Christmas knocks him out (325).
Submitted by chad.jewett@uco... on Thu, 2014-01-02 14:08
In Go Down, Moses Sam Fathers lives among the blacks on the McCaslin-Edmonds place, and "even goes with them to the negro church now and then" (161). Presumably this church isn't far from the plantation, but the text does not say that explicitly.
