Submitted by jjoiner@keuka.edu on Sat, 2017-07-01 18:34
Gavin Stevens' office, as both a lawyer and as County Attorney, is located above McCaslin's hardware store right on Jefferson's Courthouse Square (92). It is reached by climbing a set of outside stairs. Its prominent location explains his anxiety when Eula Snopes visits him there after dark (94).
Submitted by jjoiner@keuka.edu on Sat, 2017-07-01 18:24
The "Big Bottom" is Faulkner's name for a large wilderness area on the Tallahatchie River in the northwestern corner of Yoknapatawpha County, as described most vividly in his novel Go Down, Moses. In this text, Colonel Sartoris is described as "of that group of old Major de Spain's bear and deer hunters when Major de Spain established his annual hunting camp in the Big Bottom shortly after the war" (45).
Four officers - "in their gray and braid and sabres" - accompany Philip and the chaplain to the wedding at Sartoris (699). This group might include some of the five officers who came to Sartoris earlier with Forrest, but that is not directly said or suggested in the text.
