Submitted by ben.robbins@fu-... on Sat, 2017-10-21 08:05
One of the men in Jefferson who discuss Montgomery Ward Snopes' arrest, Homer Bookwright offers as the explanation for the jailer's wife's interest in Snopes' career as a pornographer the fact that she is "human too, even if she is a woman" (70).
"Remish" is the "manufacturer's name" of the "compact smallish" organs that Ratliff peddles around Yoknapatawpha during the period after World War II (87). He makes the instrument so popular that a part of the county - "a small collection of houses near a small store a few miles from Frenchman's Bend" (87) - decides to declare itself a town named "Remish." Historically, organs built for home entertainment enjoyed a vogue during this period, but if Faulkner has a real brand of instrument and a real southern hamlet in mind, we haven't been able to identify them.
In 1943 the narrator is about to be shipped to "the Pacific" (88), where much of World War II was fought. He does not give any further details about his military service.
Submitted by ben.robbins@fu-... on Sat, 2017-10-21 07:59
The jailer's wife who treats Montgomery Ward Snopes so well while he is in the jail that people in Jefferson are surprised, especially considering Snopes' career as a pornographer. But Homer Bookwright explains her behavior to his friends: she is "human too, even if she is a woman" (70).
Submitted by ben.robbins@fu-... on Sat, 2017-10-21 07:57
Clarence ("pronounced 'Cla'nce,'" 325) Snopes is the son of I.O. Snopes and the half-brother of Montgomery Ward Snopes. Additionally, Mink Snopes identifies him as "my own oldest brother's grandson" (113), but it seems unlikely that Mink had any siblings. After being both a gang leader and a constable as a youth, through the influence of Will Varner "Cla'nce" becomes Senator C. Egglestone Snopes, an extremely corrupt and manipulative politician whom the voters of Frenchman's Bend re-elect to the state legislature for twenty-five years.
Submitted by ben.robbins@fu-... on Sat, 2017-10-21 07:46
The male customers at Montgomery Ward Snopes' Atelier who come from "as far away as three county seats" to view his imported pornography collection (62).
Submitted by ben.robbins@fu-... on Sat, 2017-10-21 07:42
This is the youngster whom Ratliff calls "that durn boy that seen them two robbers in Uncle Willy's drug cabinet" after leaving "the late picture show" (61), an event that leads to the discovery of Montgomery Ward Snopes' "Atelier" (60). His "paw" is also referred to in this passage, but in The Town this boy's name is Whit Rouncewell. Neither novel says anything about how or even if these two Rouncewells are related to the "Miz Rouncewell" who is a Jefferson businesswoman elsewhere in The Mansion and in three other Yoknapatawpha fictions.
