Reflecting on the history of Yoknapatawpha, Gavin creates two sets of the original white inhabitants: "the proud fading white plantation names" who owned the "rich plantation earth," and the lower class families who lived in the "hill-country" (332). In the first group he lists: "Sutpen and Sartoris and Compson and Edmonds and McCaslin and Beauchamp and Grenier and Habersham"; in the second: McCallum and Gowrie and Frazier and Muir" (332). He characterizes the first group mainly in terms of their social roles: "generals and governors and judges, soldiers . . .
These Negroes are regular customers at Garraway's store on Seminary Hill. Gavin Stevens describes them as "loafing" (327), and he and Mr Garraway mutter so as "not to be overheard: two white men discussing in a store full of Negroes a white woman's adultery" (329).
Mr. Garraway owns the store at Seminary Hill. Gavin Stevens describes him physically as "an old man with an old man's dim cloudy eyes magnified and enormous behind the thick lenses of his iron-framed spectacles" (328).
The Sartoris bank cashier, Mr. Hovis, receives a "coca cola" at the bank's closing time (323). (If in Faulkner's imagination he's related to the Mrs. Hovis who appears in the short story "Uncle Tilly," the novel gives no hint of it.)
The teller at the Sartoris bank, Miss Killebrew receives one of the four "coca colas" that are regularly delivered from the drugstore at the end of the business day (323).
These two "girl book-keepers" are employees of the Sartoris bank; like the others on the staff, they receive "coca colas" at the bank's three o'clock closing hour (323).
