The tavern on the route that Jim Gant takes from the Bend to Memphis is described in "Miss Zilphia Gant" as "a rambling log house with stout walls and broken roof"; the men who stay in it are "rough" and "unshaven," they drink "corn whiskey" and sleep in "their muddy clothes and boots," and "about the whole place lay an air of transient and sinister dilapidation" (368). The place is "conducted" by Mrs. Vinson, the woman whom Gant leaves his wife for (368).
This is the "vacant house across the street" from the frame bungalow in Jefferson where Zilphia lives with her mother; in this house Zilphia's husband hides for two "days and nights," standing a kind of vigil over her ("Miss Zilphia Gant," 378).
After 23 years in Jefferson, Mrs. Gant buys a house for her and Zilphia to live in, "a frame bungalow, bleak as a calendar picture, on an obscure street" ("Miss Zilphia Gant," 375). As is noted in the entry for Jason Compson's Bungalow, which lists several of the characters who reside in 'bungalows,' by definition a bungalow is a low house, usually of just one story.
Of the houses "in three different parts of town" that are home to the three girls whom Zilphia tells her mother she would like to visit, this is the one that Mrs. Gant gives her "permission to visit" ("Miss Zilphia Gant," 373). On its property is also a "barn" where the two girls play in good weather, and "behind the barn" there is "a short pasture [that] slopes to a ditch where scrub cedars grew"; in this ditch Mrs. Gant sits to keep watch on her daughter until it is time for them to return home together (373).
All we know about "the woods" where Mrs. Gant catches her daughter and a boy lying together "in a ditch" "inside a worn horse-blanket" is that it is "on the outskirts of town, within hailing distance of the highroad" ("Miss Zilphia Gant," 371, 374).
The barred window in the room where the Gants live in "Miss Zilphia Gant" looks over "a vacant lot where farmers tethered their teams on market days" - which suggests proximity to the Square - "and where sparrows whirled in gusty clouds about the horse and mule droppings and the refuse from the grocery store" that occupies the building's ground floor (371). As they "hitch or unhitch" their teams, the farmers regularly see Zilphia's face in the window, "holding to the bars" (371).
In "Miss Zilphia Gant" the "dressmaking shop" that Mrs. Gant buys when she moves to Jefferson is also where she and Zilphia live for "twenty-three years" (371). It is one of the businesses and offices in Jefferson that are on the second story of the buildings around the Square, reached by an outside flight of "stairs to the street" (374); on its ground floor the building houses a grocery store (371). Mrs.
Two of Mrs. Gant's Frenchman's Bend neighbors are mentioned in "Miss Zilphia Gant." This is the house where Mrs. Gant borrows the pistol that she takes with her on her trip to Memphis (369).
At the start of "Miss Zilphia Gant," Jim Gant lives with his wife and "two-year-old" daughter Zilphia in a "small house" somewhere in "the settlement" that the story refers to as "the Bend" (369, 371).
