It was presumably after the Great War ended that Horace Benbow traveled to Venice, where he discovers the art of glassblowing that he tries to practice back home in Jefferson. The craftsmen of the Venetian island of Murano have been famous for the quality of their glassware since the end of the 13th century.
Identified only as "an English architect of the '40s" (e.g. the 1840s, 163), he is the person who built the Benbow house in Jefferson, and laid out the large lawn and drive between it and the street.
Submitted by grdenton@memphis.edu on Mon, 2013-02-25 21:15
The narrator mainly calls "the old Negro woman" who delivers Milly's baby "the Negress" (535), but Sutpen mentions her name: "Dicey" (544). She witnesses Wash killing Sutpen, "peering around the crazy door with her black gargoyle face of a worn gnome" (545). She immediately flees the scene "with the agility of a goat" (545).
Submitted by grdenton@memphis.edu on Mon, 2013-02-25 20:49
Milly is Wash Jones' granddaughter. She catches Sutpen's romantic attention when she is fifteen. Sutpen impregnates her, but he will not marry her until the child's gender proves to be male. She gives birth to a daughter, which causes Sutpen to dismiss her and the baby.
Submitted by grdenton@memphis.edu on Mon, 2013-02-25 20:16
Sutpen is called "Colonel Sutpen" by the narrator (536), "Kernel" by Wash Jones (538), and "Cunnel" by his slaves, but nowhere in the story is he given a first name. When he returns as the central character in Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! (1936), he is Thomas Sutpen. In both texts Sutpen owns a large plantation in Yoknapatawpha, is a Confederate officer in the Civil War, earning citations from Robert E. Lee, is obsessed with producing a male heir, has a female child with the poor white Milly Jones, and is killed by her grandfather.
Submitted by chlester0@gmail.com on Sun, 2013-02-24 18:56
Nancy is a laundress who lives in Negro Hollow and substitutes as a cook for the Compsons when Dilsey is sick. "She was tall, with a high, sad face sunken a little where her teeth were missing" (290). She is pregnant and suspects that the father is Mr Stovall, who kicks her teeth out when she berates him in public for withholding the money he owes her for sex. She is beaten by the jailer as well after she is arrested and tries to hang herself. In her desperation, Nancy believes that the greatest threat to her life is her husband Jesus, from whom she seeks the protection of the Compsons.
The wooden bridge over the stream beside which V. K. Suratt stops to get water for his radiator seems much closer to Jefferson than to the road that leads off to Hub's farm, but its precise location is conjectural. The landscape here is described in particularly sylvan terms: the water "chuckle[s] and murmur[s]," the stream is lined with "willows" that, in the moonlight, cast "delicate" shadows on "the pallid planking of the bridge," and so on (139).
The wooden bridge over the stream where V.K. Suratt stops to get water for his radiator in Flags in the Dust is somewhere between the road that leads off to Hub's farm and Jefferson, but its precise location is not provided. The novel describes its terrain in particularly sylvan terms: the water "chuckles and murmurs," the stream is lined with "willows" that, in the moonlight, cast "delicate" shadows on "the pallid planking of the bridge," and so on (139).
