Submitted by tmtowner@utdall... on Sat, 2017-12-30 14:48
Georgie's grandpa lives in Mottstown. Mottstown (sometimes spelled Mottson) is the county seat of the county immediately south of Yoknapatawpha, but we include it on our main map because so many events in the Yoknapatawpha fictions take place there. "That Will Be Fine," however, is the only story that is mainly set there. Every Christmas, Georgie's family, including their black cook, leave Jefferson to visit Grandpa.
Submitted by tmtowner@utdall... on Sat, 2017-12-30 14:48
Although most of the story "That Will Be Fine" takes place in Mottstown, Georgie and his parents live in one of Jefferson's comfortable middle-class neighborhoods. Although the family has a black servant named Rosie, it's unclear whether she lives on the property, as his grandfather's cook does in the family's Mottstown house.
Submitted by tmtowner@utdall... on Sat, 2017-12-30 14:46
The Allison home in "Beyond" first housed the Judge's mother and aunts, with whom he lived there as a boy and single man, then the Judge and his wife, then the two of them and their son. Now the Judge lives alone in it. It is well-kept, tended by two black servants, a housekeeper and a groundskeeper; the furniture is old-fashioned but comfortable and well-made. It is the sort of home that befits "a Republican judge in a Democratic stronghold" (789).
Submitted by tmtowner@utdall... on Sat, 2017-12-30 13:10
Whether this is an actual place or just a landscape that exists in the judge's imagination, Beyond has certain distinct features. It has a "narrow entrance" (795) through which arrivals crowd and at which some people seem to linger in wait for others to arrive. Inhabitants seem to be able to wander there at will, and it has features of a conventional earthly landscape: a bench, for example, "inside a park" (788) where a child plays in the dust with his toys (792) and a boy named Howard "rides past every day on his pony" (794).
Submitted by tmtowner@utdall... on Sat, 2017-12-30 13:03
Judge Allison's office is on the Square and, like many other Jefferson offices, up one flight of "stairs" from the street; it is opposite the courthouse: when he descends those stairs, he can read the courthouse clock (795).
Submitted by tmtowner@utdall... on Sat, 2017-12-30 12:46
By placing the icon for "Heaven" above the "World" on the world maps for "Beyond" and Absalom, Absalom!, we are not trying to make a theological statement. When Brother Fortinbride preaches Granny's eulogy in "Vendee" and confidently predicts "where she has gone," we can agree or not, depending on our beliefs.
Submitted by tmtowner@utdall... on Sat, 2017-12-30 12:45
The character Judge Allison and his office in Jefferson only appear in "Beyond," but like the law offices in many other fictions, his is on the Square, up one flight of "stairs" from the street, and opposite the courthouse: when he descends those stairs, he can read the courthouse clock (795).
Submitted by tmtowner@utdall... on Sat, 2017-12-30 12:29
Courthouse Square sits at the center of Jefferson, and at the center of Yoknapatawpha, and also at the center of many of Faulkner's fictions. The courthouse itself, which sits at the center of the Square, is where Judge Allison conducts trials during his years as a federal judge. He has an office across the street from it; on his way back from Beyond, he "look[s] up at the clock on the courthouse, as he never failed to do on descending his office stairs" (795).
