Submitted by johnmcorrigan@g... on Fri, 2017-10-13 03:39
The shipyard where Linda Kohl works during World War II in The Mansion is in a real Mississippi town on the Gulf of Mexico. Historically, Pascagoula is part of an important military-industrial complex that includes the U.S. Naval Station Pascagoula on Singing River Island and the Ingalls Shipbuilding Corporation on the east bank of the Pascagoula River. In addition to the shipyard, the narrative includes the beach, the hotel where Linda and Gavin Stevens stay in separate rooms, and a "joint . . . with the radio going full blast" where they eat supper (276).
Submitted by johnmcorrigan@g... on Fri, 2017-10-13 02:15
In The Hamlet, Ratliff lives with his sister. In The Mansion, however, it appears that his bachelordom is inviolable apart from the occasional dinners he prepares for Gavin Stevens and Chick Mallison. Whereas there is virtually no detail in the earlier novel, in this novel Faulkner provides rich description about the location's interior layout and governing aesthetics.
Submitted by johnmcorrigan@g... on Fri, 2017-10-13 01:50
The Negro "Sunday School" that Linda Snopes Kohl teaches at after her return from Spain (104) meets in "one of the Negro churches" in Jefferson (254). The Mansion does not specify the church's location; we have placed in near the Negro section of town that the novel refers to elsewhere.
Submitted by johnmcorrigan@g... on Fri, 2017-10-13 01:01
This "so-called" fishing camp is located at Wylie's Crossing (244). Jakeleg sells bootleg whiskey from his "notorious riverbottom joint" (245). Whenever it was raided during prohibition, he would move it "one mile deeper" into the bottom (244). Consequently, Jakeleg keeps the store purposefully "unpainted" so that he can dismantle its structure at any time.
Submitted by johnmcorrigan@g... on Fri, 2017-10-13 00:42
In The Mansion this "so-called" fishing camp is located at Wylie's Crossing on the Tallahatchie River (244). Jakeleg sells bootleg whiskey from his "notorious riverbottom joint" (245). Alcohol cannot legally be sold in Faulkner's Mississippi; whenever this "joint" was raided Wattman would move it "one mile deeper" into the bottom (244). Consequently, he keeps the store purposefully "unpainted" so that he can dismantle it quickly.
Submitted by johnmcorrigan@g... on Fri, 2017-10-13 00:31
The Sartoris plantation is one of the central locations in Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha fictions. Described in great detail in Flags in the Dust, it appears in The Mansion simply as "Sartoris," a place where Chick Mallison is planning to go to shoot quail (228).
Submitted by johnmcorrigan@g... on Fri, 2017-10-13 00:10
In the past the Backus estate, called Rose Hill (392), was one of the "biggest plantations two or three miles from town," but it falls into disrepair (217). Once Melisandre marries Harriss, the estate is extravagantly remodelled. Indeed, "what had been just a simple familiar red-ink north Mississippi cotton plantation" is "changed into a Virginia or Long Island horse farm, with miles of white panel fence" and "white stables with electric light and steam heat and running water and butlers and footmen for the horses." With Harriss' death, the estate falls again into decline.
Miss Vaiden Wyott is the second grade teacher who encourages and advises Wallstreet Panic Snopes throughout his public school education and beyond. She is a descendant of an old Yoknapatawpha family, but after teaching in Jefferson for a decade she decides "to accept a position in a school in Bristol, Virginia" (154).
The "mothers" of Jefferson appear as a distinct group several times in the novel. They bring their little children to the kindergarten class in which Wallstreet Panic and Admiral Dewey Snopes are already enrolled, for example. We also use this entry to refer to the larger group that Gavin refers to as "Southern mothers" - who want "their daughters" to attend college in Virginia (221).
