Submitted by cornellgoldw@fo... on Fri, 2013-12-20 11:56
This cabin icon represents what the narrative calls Jefferson's "negro section, Freedman Town" (114). It appears first in the novel when Joe Christmas walks through it at night. Its unpaved, often rutted roads and lanes are lit by streetlights that "seem to be further spaced" than in other sections of Jefferson, emphasizing rather than dispelling the darkness (114). Small cabins, felt rather than seen by Joe as "cabinshapes," are built into the neighborhood's hollows and hills; they are lighted by kerosene rather than electricity.
Submitted by cornellgoldw@fo... on Fri, 2013-12-20 11:50
The seminary where Hightower receives his ministerial training appeals to him as a set of "quiet and safe walls within which the hampered and garmentworried spirit could learn anew serenity" (478). It is also there, however, that he meets and marries his wife, the daughter of one of the seminary instructors, who is "desperate" to escape those metaphorical walls (480).
Submitted by cornellgoldw@fo... on Fri, 2013-12-20 11:47
The seminary where Hightower receives his ministerial training in Light in August appeals to him as a set of "quiet and safe walls within which the hampered and garmentworried spirit could learn anew serenity" (478). It is also there, however, that he meets and marries his wife, the daughter of one of the seminary instructors, who is "desperate" to escape those metaphorical walls (480). We are assuming the Seminary is in Mississippi, but it could be elsewhere.
Submitted by cornellgoldw@fo... on Fri, 2013-12-20 11:36
More than half a mile "beyond" (and so probably west of) Joanna Burden's house is a "small store" that sells gasoline and staples (111). Joe buys "crackers and a tin of potted meat" from the woman who works there (111).
Submitted by cornellgoldw@fo... on Fri, 2013-12-20 11:34
About half a mile "beyond" (and so probably west of) Joanna Burden's house in Light in August is a "small store" that sells gasoline and staples (111). Joe buys "crackers and a tin of potted meat" from the woman who works there (111).
Submitted by cornellgoldw@fo... on Fri, 2013-12-20 11:32
The jail where both "Joe Brown" and Joe Christmas are held at different times is not too far from Courthouse Square. As a location it appears in fourteen other texts.
As an example of the trouble her great-great-nephews used to get into as college students visiting New York, Jenny mentions "a policeman or a waiter or something" to whom Old Bayard paid fifteen hundred dollars in compensation for "something they did" (381).
According to Miss Jenny, it is "the chief of police in New York" who writes to Bayard and John's college instructors to complain about the young men's misbehavior in the city (381).
These are Bayard's teachers at the University of Virginia, and Johnny's at Princeton, who are informed about the kinds of trouble that the twins get into in New York City.
