Jefferson+Barber+Shop

"His address from now on will be the barbershop,"one said."Or that alley just behind it," another said(45).The small town mentality is clear from the first chapters, with a conversation between two residents in Jefferson about Brown and how to find him. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Faulkner continues in //Light in August// (1932) his reference to the role of Southern Barbershops in shaping the public opinion as he did before in //Dry September// (1931). Through the talk of the town, the barber in DS played a corrective role defying the Lynching mob as Cleanth Brooke mentions in //Toward Yoknapatawpha and Beyond//. The appeal of small town life with a population under 15,000 secures a safe, affordable and not so busy surrounding which is present in both novels. However, ironically enough with small communities comes big talk and a rumor cycle which has the Barber Shop as the nucleus of such rumors. The place people of the community head to for information, for discussion and for reaching a utilitarian decision. Many of the isolation sentences predominant at that time were publicized at the barber shop. It was the focal point for the white Southern Male Supremacy. All in all, it is natural to find more references to the Barber Shop in LIA. During Mr. McEachern and Joe's visit to town, Faulkner draws a cinematic picture of the Barber shop stating "At the far end of the counter the group of men with their tilted hats and their cigarettes and their odor of barbershops, watched him."(178) The 'Watching' is the key factor of the Barber Shop role in a small town like Jefferson.
 * Jefferson Barber Shop**