Submitted by chlester0@gmail.com on Sat, 2013-06-29 12:53
This is a generic Location, bringing together the five texts that refer to a "hotel" in Jefferson without making it clear which hotel is meant, or even if it's more likely to be a boarding house than a hotel. Cash Bundren calls the place where his family spends one night in Jefferson in As I Lay Dying a "hotel" (260), and in "That Evening Sun" Quentin Compson says Mr. Lovelady and his wife and daughter "lived at the hotel" (308) - but in those cases it seems far more likely that a boarding house is meant.
James B. Carothers (1942 – 2024) was Conger Gabel Teaching Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Kansas, where he taught from 1970 to 2016. Author of William Faulkner's Short Stories (1985) and co-author (with Theresa M. Towner) of Reading Faulkner: Collected Stories (2006), he was, with John T. Matthews, founding co-editor of The Faulkner Journal.
Submitted by napolinj@newsch... on Fri, 2013-06-28 18:41
It is mentioned only once in "That Evening Sun" as the church where Mr. Stovall is a deacon. We base the location for this fictional church on the location of the actual First Baptist Church in Oxford, Mississippi.
Submitted by napolinj@newsch... on Fri, 2013-06-28 18:18
Baptists are one of the four main Protestant groups in Jefferson, along with Presbyterians, Methodists and Episcopalians. Five unnamed Baptist ministers are mentioned in various texts, but only two fictions refer to the Baptist church as a location, and neither uses it as the location for an event, so it is never described.
