Mrs. Binford is "another of the Snopes girls," living with her husband "near Varner's store" in Frenchman's Bend (383). The novel tells us she was once badly injured, from "that time the brooder lamp blowed up and burnt most of her front hair off" (385) - which allows us to assume she and her husband raise chickens. But it doesn't give us a way to say for sure how, as a "Snopes girl," she's related to the rest of the family.
"Dewitt Binford had married another of the Snopes girls. They lived near Varner's store" (383). Binford and his wife contract to provide room and board for the four children of Bryon Snopes. Dewitt decides the job is not worth four dollars a week when one of them slashes his face twice (384).
Submitted by jjoiner@keuka.edu on Tue, 2017-12-12 16:00
Lonnie Grinnup and Joe periodically shut up Lonnie's shack and visit acquaintances who live in these "houses or cabins ten and fifteen miles away" (71). Lonnie and Joe sometimes sleep "in the hay of lofts," which suggests at least some of the people they stay with are farmers, but in other places "his hosts" let them sleep "in beds in family or company rooms" (71), making it harder to determine whether to identify these locations with "houses" or "cabins," and impossible to say for sure where to put them on the map.
Submitted by jjoiner@keuka.edu on Tue, 2017-12-12 15:57
In "Hand upon the Waters" Lonnie Grinnup and Joe periodically shut up Lonnie's shack and visit acquaintances who live in these "houses or cabins ten and fifteen miles away" (71). Lonnie and Joe sometimes sleep "in the hay of lofts," which suggests at least some of the people they stay with are farmers, but in other places "his hosts" let them sleep "in beds in family or company rooms" (71), making it harder to determine whether to identify these locations with "houses" or "cabins," and impossible to say for sure where to put them on the map.
Submitted by jjoiner@keuka.edu on Tue, 2017-12-12 15:54
Founded in 1819, Memphis, Tennessee, is the closest big city to Yoknapatawpha County, and it plays a role in many of Faulkner's novels and stories. Memphis is most frequently associated with the kinds of misbehavior and vice that are unavailable in Yoknapatawpha.
Submitted by jjoiner@keuka.edu on Tue, 2017-12-12 15:49
After Gavin is shot, he is resting on the veranda of his home. This is presumably the home that Stevens shares with his married sister and her family in The Town and eight other Faulkner texts, and which is owned by their father. Here is the way Gavin's nephew, Charles Mallison, explains the arrangement in The Town: "We were all living with Grandfather then.
Submitted by jjoiner@keuka.edu on Tue, 2017-12-12 15:41
Located past the store and a quarter of a mile to the right of the turn for Lonnie Grinnup's cabin, this cabin is where Nate lives with his wife. When Gavin Stevens arrives there on his way to Lonnie Grinnup's camp, it is too "dark" to see anything but its "littered yard" (79).
Submitted by jjoiner@keuka.edu on Tue, 2017-12-12 15:38
Located past the store in Frenchman's Bend and a quarter of a mile to the right of the turn for Lonnie Grinnup's cabin, this cabin is where Nate lives with his wife. Nate and his wife are black, and their presence in Frenchman's Bend in "Hand upon the Waters" contradicts what Faulkner says elsewhere about the absence of Negroes from that part of Yoknapatawpha. The few other Negroes who live in the Bend almost all work for whites as servants, but the brief account of Nate's in this story suggests it is a farm.
