The Digital Yoknapatawpha Project

These grocery distributors accept Wallstreet's commercial methods and innovations as congenial to their own.

Jefferson housewives eventually drive to Wallstreet's self-service grocery store to "seek his bargains and carry them home themselves" (157).

Gavin speculates that this "small though thrifty farmer" (157) finds the money to save his son-in-law's business.

"Drummer" was once a well-known term for traveling salesman. This unnamed drummer is imagined by Jefferson observers to have oversold some commodity to Wallstreet Panic Snopes, thus making it necessary for him to borrow money.

Miss Wyott is a teacher in Jefferson, but the narrative notes that her "own people" - that is, her ancestors - "had come from the country (her own branch of it remained there where they had owned the nearest ford, crossing, ferry before Jefferson even became Jefferson)" (154). (In The Reivers Faulkner re-names the family that owns this spot Wylie.)

Miss Vaiden Wyott's colleague is watching when Wallstreet proposes to Miss Vaiden (153).

The principal awards Wall his diploma (153).

Although she is never named, Mrs. Wallstreet Panic is memorably characterized. When she first appears at school in Jefferson, the teacher, Miss Vaiden Wyott, instructs Wall that "this is she. Marry her." He does. His wife is described as a "tense fierce not quite plain-faced girl . . . and a will if anything even more furious" than Gavin's in opposing the rest of the Snopeses (154).

This man is a customer at the Sartoris bank who cannot read Colonel Sartoris' handwriting on the loan he takes out (147-148).

To find out "how a bank was run," Flem Snopes watches the men who "kept the books" at work (147).