This short story's setting takes place in Jefferson, Mississippi with the narrator Quentin talking about a story that happened 15 years ago. His family has a black maid that does the laundry for the family who's name is Nancy. Her back story is that she has a history of prostitution with white males, she got beat often, and one impregnated her. Nancy's husband Jesus was not happy about that and threatened the man who did it. She Then the rest of the story Nancy is hiding from her husband being paranoid that he is coming to find and kill her. The racial stereotypes were very prominent to Faulkner's state so the story makes sense, and in the South during the time this was written, discrimination was very common down south. Also, the Jim Crow laws weren't put into place until the 60s so segregation prolonged prominently through the early 1920s.
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