Jennie J. Joiner is a Professor of English at Keuka College in upstate New York, where she teaches American literature courses grounded in studies of place and geography. Her publications include articles on William Faulkner in the Faulkner Journal, Mississippi Quarterly, the Flannery O'Connor Review, and Digitizing Faulkner: Yoknapatawpha in the Twenty-First Century, edited by Theresa M. Towner and published by the University of Virginia Press.
Submitted by chad.jewett@uco... on Mon, 2013-12-30 00:21
Located somewhere in Jefferson, presumably in the neighborhood of Hightower's house, the store where he does his "semiweekly marketing" is described as "odorous and cluttered" (308). Its "dingy shelves" contain "flyspecked tins" of food (309).
Submitted by chad.jewett@uco... on Mon, 2013-12-30 00:15
The Burringtons, the family that Calvin Burden comes from, were mostly in New Hampshire, and Exeter, in the southern part of the state, is the home town of Joanna Burden's nephew, Nathaniel Burrington.
Submitted by chad.jewett@uco... on Mon, 2013-12-30 00:10
In Light in August the family that Calvin Burden comes from, the Burringtons, mostly live in New Hampshire; Exeter, the specific city where Joanna Burden's nephew Nathaniel Burrington lives, is the southern part of the state.
Submitted by cornellgoldw@fo... on Sat, 2013-12-28 09:52
Byron Bunch lives in the boarding house with other male boarders. At one point the house seems "filled with familiar sounds, but mostly a terrible inertia, a terrible procrastination" (84).
Submitted by tmtowner@utdall... on Thu, 2013-12-26 18:37
The narrator of "Death Drag" refers to him only as "the driver" and "the driver of the car," but we learn his name when one of the boys whom he lets ride with him by standing on the car's running boards calls him "Mr. Black" (189). He gives the three barnstormers a lift from the airfield to town.
Submitted by tmtowner@utdall... on Thu, 2013-12-26 18:32
This boy is afraid to return Mr. Harris' car to him after Ginsfarb skips town without paying for its use in the air show. He seems enterprising enough to take a quarter for returning the car and smart enough to know that Mr. Harris "might get mad" at being cheated (205).
Submitted by tmtowner@utdall... on Thu, 2013-12-26 18:30
Mr. Harris owns the car that Ginsfarb ostensibly rents for use in the air show. Ginsfarb promises him a double payment if he uses the car, but after he does use the car, skips town without paying Harris, who "might get mad" at being cheated (205).
