Submitted by garrettm@u.nort... on Sat, 2012-06-09 13:36
The ice plant is described as "out of town" (176), and its setting seems fairly isolated, but the narrative gives no other clues about where it should go on the map. Will Mayes works here as a night watchman, and the lynch mob drives here to capture him. (Commercial ice making factories began appearing in American cities and towns in the 19th century.)
Submitted by garrettm@u.nort... on Sat, 2012-06-09 13:36
The ice plant where Will Mayes works as a watchman in "Dry September" is described as "out of town" (176), and when the lynchers go there to capture him its setting seems fairly isolated, but the narrative gives no other clues about where it should go on the map. Commercial ice making factories began appearing in American cities and towns in the 19th century.
Submitted by garrettm@u.nort... on Sat, 2012-06-09 13:33
Hawkshaw overtakes the lynch mob in an alley, where McLendon has parked his car. As the barber runs to this location from his shop, it is implied that the alley is in or near downtown Jefferson.
Submitted by garrettm@u.nort... on Sat, 2012-06-09 13:32
This location is a generic one, used for events that specifically take place in a location identified only as an "alley" in Jefferson. Most of the "alleys" are located around the Square. (See also the entry for Jefferson Courthouse and Square, which is the default Location we use for events that take place at a place in Jefferson that is not identified at all.)
Submitted by garrettm@u.nort... on Sat, 2012-06-09 13:31
A "widower of about forty - a high-colored man, smelling always of the barber shop or of whisky" - who takes up with Minnie (174). He owns "the first automobile" in Jefferson, in which he and Minnie take drives, scandalizing the town (174). About four years after their relationship begins, he moves to Memphis, where he works in another bank and, according to Jefferson gossip, is "prospering" (175).
Submitted by garrettm@u.nort... on Sat, 2012-06-09 13:24
Minnie Cooper's "thin, sallow, unflagging aunt" lives with Minnie and her mother in a "small frame house" (173). After Mrs. Cooper starts "keeping to her room," this "gaunt aunt runs the house" (175).
Submitted by garrettm@u.nort... on Sat, 2012-06-09 13:20
Minnie Cooper's mother is not explicitly named in "Dry September," which mentions her once as Minnie's "invalid mother," who lives with her daughter in "a small frame house" (173).
