Submitted by ben.robbins@fu-... on Wed, 2017-10-18 12:48
This "Negro" lives three miles from Mink. He is a small farmer, but prosperous enough to own a "scrub bull," which he hires out to other farmers for cash "payment in advance" (9).
Submitted by ben.robbins@fu-... on Wed, 2017-10-18 12:44
Houston's young wife is killed by a stallion when she goes into its stall looking for a hen's nest; she and that event are only mentioned in this novel but both are described in more detail in The Hamlet.
Submitted by johnmcorrigan@g... on Sun, 2017-10-15 03:17
In The Mansion Tug Nightingale's father is a "cobbler" - someone who mends shoes - with a "little cubbyhole of a shop around a corner off the Square" (201). This is the only mention of a shoe-repair business in the Yoknapatawpha fictions, though in a number of them the narrative points out that upper class characters like old Bayard Sartoris (in Flags in the Dust) or Eunice Habersham (in Intruder in the Dust) order their custom-made footwear from remote places like New York.
Submitted by johnmcorrigan@g... on Sun, 2017-10-15 03:16
The "Airdome" in town is apparently an early version of the Jefferson movie theater that appears in other Yoknapatawpha fictions (36). The Airdome is outdoors, in "a vacant lot" behind a "big high plank stockade" or fence, and includes a "piano" that plays "loud" music to accompany the films, which were silent at that time (36). Patrons pay ten cents to enter the lot and, presumably while standing rather than sitting, watch what the narrator describes as "the passionate and evanescent posturings where danced and flickered the ephemeral hopes and dreams" (37).
Submitted by johnmcorrigan@g... on Sun, 2017-10-15 03:13
Described in greater detail in The Hamlet, Houston's land has a house and a pasture. In The Mansion, Faulkner contrasts Mink's "meagre pasture" (10) with Houston's land, which is abundant enough to sustain a beef herd. This location includes spot on the road between Houston's farm and Varner's store, "just over the brow of a short hill" (8), where Mink is almost accidentally run down by Houston on horseback.
Submitted by johnmcorrigan@g... on Sun, 2017-10-15 03:09
This is the place where the novel, and the larger Snopes trilogy, end. After leaving the hole where his cabin used to be, Mink walks "West" for much of the night, then lies down on a piece of earth (478).
Submitted by johnmcorrigan@g... on Sun, 2017-10-15 03:08
This is the place where The Mansion - and thus the larger Snopes trilogy - end. After leaving the hole where his cabin used to be, Mink walks "West" for much of the night, then lies down on a piece of earth (478).
Submitted by johnmcorrigan@g... on Sun, 2017-10-15 03:07
When the novel begins, the Jefferson cemetery already contains the body of Eula Varner Snopes, and "the white monument" to her that Gavin Stevens and Flem Snopes designed (165). At the end, Flem is buried there alongside her grave. Behind the cemetery is a "big ditch" where Tug Nightingale shoots dice (203).
