Submitted by johnmcorrigan@g... on Fri, 2018-04-13 00:29
In Flags in the Dust, this site by the side of the road is where old Bayard Sartoris suffers a fatal heart attack in the middle of a car accident; his grandson Bayard was driving, and the event leads him to exile himself from Yoknapatawpha. In The Mansion, by contrast, the event's significance is defined by the crisis it creates for the Sartoris Bank.