Submitted by rlcoleman@usout... on Sun, 2018-01-14 13:01
The sheriff of Yoknapatawpha in this story has the first name "Hub." He isn't given a last name, but it's very likely that he is one of the three Hampton's who serve as county sheriff in the fictions - one of the two nicknamed Hub (short for Hubert) - and the Hub Hampton who also appears in Intruder in the Dust (1948), The Town (1957) and The Mansion (1960). A friend of Gavin Stevens, he is described as "a big man with little hard eyes" (116). He has been the sheriff "off and on" for quite a while and likes to quote the Bible when talking with Gavin (115).
Submitted by rlcoleman@usout... on Sun, 2018-01-14 12:40
Joel Flint used to work in carnivals. At one point he was known as Signor Canova, a master of illusion. After abandoning the Canova persona, Flint started working in other circuses, serving as "bandsman, ringman, Bornean wild man" (134). Eventually, his role in traveling carnivals was as a pitch man with a "roulette wheel wired against imitation watches and pistols which would not shoot" (134).
The house where Tyler Ballenbaugh lives in "Hand upon the Waters" is "just across the [Yoknapatawpha] river" from Frenchman's Bend and three miles from Okatoba County (78).
This icon represents the place where the "young man" who waits by the gate in Beyond died when he swerved his car to avoid hitting the child who "ran into the road" (784). The few details he provides about the accident give no clues as to its location, and other than the fact that he speaks English, the young man gives no clues about where he's from, so we have chosen to put the icon in the middle of the U.S.
Submitted by tmtowner@utdall... on Fri, 2018-01-12 18:25
Judge Allison mentions the "extra groom" who went with the Allison family when they rode to church in order to tend his son's pony while they were in services (790). "Groom" here means a person employed to take care of horses.
Submitted by tmtowner@utdall... on Fri, 2018-01-12 18:21
Judge Allison's father-in-law was "a Republican" with whose politics the Judge agrees (789). Politically, Allison and his father-in-law are very much in the minority in Yoknapatawpha.
Submitted by tmtowner@utdall... on Fri, 2018-01-12 17:41
The unnamed "young man" who waits by the gate into Beyond in "Beyond" died when he swerved his car to avoid hitting the child who "ran into the road" (784). The few details he provides about the accident give no clues as to its location, and other than the fact that he speaks English, the young man gives no clues about where he's from. Our decision to locate this road in the middle of the U.S. is purely speculative.
Submitted by Mike.Wainwright... on Thu, 2018-01-11 11:55
For the last few years, Boyd Ballenbaugh has been hiding at his brother’s, "not from the police but from some of his Memphis friends or later business associates" (76). Both the mention of the police and the fact that Boyd is in hiding seems to suggest that, like many of the characters whom Faulkner's fictions locate in Memphis, these men are members of the underworld, and their "business" some kind of criminal activity - but that is not made explicit.
Submitted by Mike.Wainwright... on Thu, 2018-01-11 11:47
Ike tells Stevens that Lonnie Grinnup had saved his "burying money" with Mitchell "at the store" (73). It's clear that the money is for his funeral expenses, but not clear who "Mitchell" is in this context. He could be the store owner (though in all the other fictions where the Frenchman's Bend store occurs, it is owned by the Varners), or - as seems more likely - Mitchell is a local undertaker, whose clients put money away for him at the store, which thus functions as a kind of bank for the people who live outside the town.
