Submitted by cornellgoldw@fo... on Fri, 2013-12-20 10:53
After Mrs. Hightower breaks down in church, the congregation raises funds to send her to "an institution, a sanatorium" (65). Hightower visits her "every two weeks" during her confinement there, but since he returns to Jefferson each time "after a day or so," it cannot be very far from Yoknapatawpha.
Submitted by cornellgoldw@fo... on Fri, 2013-12-20 10:51
After Mrs. Hightower breaks down in church, the Presbyterian congregation raises funds to send her to "an institution, a sanatorium" (65). Hightower visits her "every two weeks" during her confinement there, but since he returns to Jefferson each time "after a day or so," it cannot be very far from Yoknapatawpha. And although the Mississippi State Insane Asylum at Jackson appears in a number of fictions, it's always called an 'asylum,' not a 'sanatorium.' So presumably Faulkner is thinking of a private facility somewhere in Mississippi.
Submitted by cornellgoldw@fo... on Fri, 2013-12-20 10:46
The Hightowers move to Jefferson and live in the parsonage, which is probably located next door to or very near the church. They live close to neighbors who can hear Hightower's unhappy wife weeping "in the afternoons or late at night" (62). The church is "almost within sight of, and within hearing of," Hightower's current home, which he moves to after he is removed from the pulpit (75).
These are "the little girls next door" with whom Little Belle plays, and who listen "with respect coldly concealed" when she tells them about the "prettier town" in which she used to live with "her real daddy" (378).
Submitted by cornellgoldw@fo... on Fri, 2013-12-20 10:41
When Hightower first moves to Jefferson with his wife in Light in August, they live "in the parsonage" near the Presbyterian church (62). The Baptist parsonage in mentioned in "A Rose for Emily."
Submitted by cornellgoldw@fo... on Fri, 2013-12-20 10:39
The railroad station is the site of several significant departures and arrivals in the novel, including Hightower, who arrives in Jefferson with his wife, and Mr. and Mrs. Hines.
Submitted by cornellgoldw@fo... on Fri, 2013-12-20 10:31
The Presbyterian church that Hightower once preached in, "using religion as though it were a dream" (61), is Presbyterian, and also "perhaps the principal church" in Jefferson (48). While its members show patience with the way Hightower's sermons use "religion as though it were a dream" (61), and seem genuinely concerned for his wife's welfare, the novel later paints a much darker picture of its system of belief.
Submitted by cornellgoldw@fo... on Fri, 2013-12-20 10:27
The Presbyterian church that Hightower once preached in, "using religion as though it were a dream" (61), is Presbyterian, and also "perhaps the principal church" in Jefferson (48). While for a while the members of the church show patience with the the idiosyncrasies of Hightower's sermons, and seem genuinely concerned for his wife's welfare, the novel later paints a much darker picture of its system of belief.
