Submitted by johnmcorrigan@g... on Wed, 2018-04-04 04:36
In The Mansion, Faulkner does not describe this location at all. It is simply the setting in which Mink Snopes touches his wife "that first time with amazement and reverence and incredulous excitement the night of his marriage" (100). In The Hamlet, by contrast, Faulkner provides rich detail of Mink's quest to find the sea and instead happening upon a "south Mississippi convict camp" (244) where he meets his future wife.
Submitted by ekp23@cornell.edu on Tue, 2018-04-03 17:23
Maury is the "only brother" of the Compson children's mother (340). Although she attempts to honor him by making her youngest son his namesake, Maury seems far from honorable: "a handsome flashing swaggering workless bachelor who borrowed money from almost anyone" (340).
