Submitted by jjoiner@keuka.edu on Sun, 2019-02-03 17:07
Located about "two miles from the [Harriss's] back door," this farm is owned by Hence Cayley and is where Max Harriss and Captain Gualdres separately meet his daughter (191).
Submitted by jjoiner@keuka.edu on Sun, 2019-02-03 17:04
Located a few miles from town, this farm is where Charles Mallison visits Captain Warren, who is now a farmer but who "had been a flight commander in the old Royal Flying Corps" during World War I, to discuss the best way he himself can join the fighting during World War II (206).
Submitted by jjoiner@keuka.edu on Sun, 2019-02-03 16:53
The Gulf of Mexico is an ocean basin bordered on the south by Mexico and on the north and east by Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida. During Prohibition, it is rumored, Harriss makes his money by flying "whiskey up from the Gulf to New Orleans" (162).
Submitted by jjoiner@keuka.edu on Sun, 2019-02-03 16:47
After World War II makes it impossible to travel to Europe, Mrs. Harriss takes her children on a trip to South America; presumably they visit Argentina, since that is the South American country that Captain Gualdres is from and that he and his new wife intend to return to.
When talking with his nephew in "Knight's Gambit" about the experience that the veterans of foreign wars have had, Gavin Stevens compares John Doe of Jefferson, Mississippi, to "Charley Longfeather of Shoshone, Idaho" - using the Western location to represent one of America's communities of color (243). In the same passage he locates a hypothetical Italian in New Jersey and a man named Harry Wong in San Francisco. Stevens' point is that what these veterans have gone through is a universal human experience, but he still maps the U.S. through the lens of race and ethnicity.
In "Knight's Gambit" Harriss has fences along his plantation in "carefully panelled and railed oak and hickory designed in Virginia and Long Island" (241). I confess we haven't been able to locate what made Faulkner think of Long Island in this context.
For many writers of Faulkner's generation the Russian Revolution of 1917 was almost as decisive an event as World War I. The totalitarian government that came to power afterward was seen by many as a blueprint for a better future and by others as threat to western civilization. In The Sound and the Fury Jason's mention of "Russia" puts him clearly, if ignorantly, in the latter camp: he tells the sheriff who will not help him pursue Miss Quentin that Yoknapatawpha "is not Russia, where just because he wears a little metal badge, a man is immune to law" (304).
