Jefferson's drugstore provides a number of different services in the different fictions it appears in. In this story it is where Joan goes to have a package re-wrapped and to look "into a show-case of cosmetics" (319).
Bringing together consumer goods that had previously been purchased in more specialized shops, department stores began appearing in the U.S. in the late 19th century. The one in Jefferson is described as "newly-opened" (317) in 1919, and seems to be another symptom (like the character of the young woman who is encountered in front of it) of modern change in the aftermath of World War I.
Bringing together consumer goods that had previously been purchased in more specialized shops, department stores began appearing in the U.S. in the late 19th century. The one in Jefferson is described in Flags in the Dust as "newly-opened" in 1919 (317), and in that context can be seen as another symptom (like the character of the young woman who is encountered in front of it) of modern change in the aftermath of World War I.
Submitted by jjoiner@keuka.edu on Thu, 2013-12-19 09:19
A cabin that Grumby's Independents burn when they kill the man who lives there: "There was one Negro in the county that everybody knew that they had murdered and burned him up in his cabin" (93).
Submitted by jjoiner@keuka.edu on Thu, 2013-12-19 09:15
Unlike Virginia and West Virginia, North and South Carolina have been two different states since the colonial times, but Faulkner almost always elides the distinction, referring frequently to "Carolina" (and once to "the Carolinas") to define where so many of the inhabitants of Yoknapatawpha originally came from. Among the families with this heritage are lower class farmers in places like Frenchman's Bend with names like "Gowrie and Frazier and Muir," who migrated "from Culloden [in Scotland] to Carolina, then from Carolina to Yoknapatawpha" (The Town, 332).
Submitted by jjoiner@keuka.edu on Thu, 2013-12-19 09:01
The place between Mottstown and the Sartoris place where Ab Snopes hides the mules that Miss Rosa has stolen from the Union Army. There is a real Hickahala Creek in Mississippi, halfway between Oxford and Memphis. If we were sure Faulkner had this real creek in mind, this reference would be one of the strongest clues he provides to the relative positions of the real Oxford and his imaginary Jefferson - that is, Jefferson would also be between Oxford and Memphis, and about 20 miles north of Hickahala Creek But we cannot be sure about this.
Submitted by jjoiner@keuka.edu on Wed, 2013-12-18 16:25
The desolate hideout of Grumby and his Independents is "located on the Tallahatchie River, sixty miles away" from the Sartoris Plantation (94). Bayard describes the abandoned cotton compress as "the huge rotting building with the gray afternoon dying wetly upon it, and then at the end of the hall a faint crack of light beneath a door" (96).
Submitted by jjoiner@keuka.edu on Wed, 2013-12-18 16:00
The church that seems to have been built for the big plantations that lie in the northern half of Yoknapatawpha and where the Sartoris family has a pew and there is a gallery large enough for 200 negroes.
Submitted by jjoiner@keuka.edu on Wed, 2013-12-18 15:46
The place where the Union soldiers catch Bayard and Granny surrounded by woods on either side. When Ringo distracts the soldiers "there was a big noise of bushes and trees like a cyclone was going through them" (82).
Submitted by jjoiner@keuka.edu on Wed, 2013-12-18 15:28
Mottstown is the location where, as Faulkner wrote when he located the town on his 1936 map of Yoknapatawpha, "Jason Compson lost his nieces's trail (in The Sound and the Fury), and where Anse Bundren and his boys had to go in order to reach Jefferson (in As I Lay Dying)." I.O. Snopes also mentions Mottstown in Chapter 16 of The Town, concerning the mule in the yard. In "The Unvanquished" it is the site of a Union regiment's encampment, where Ringo goes to scout for mules that Granny later steals using forged paperwork.
