William Faulkner is a well-known author who has won awards such as the Nobel Prize in Literature and two Pulitzer Prizes for his novels “ The Reiser” and “A Fable”. He has written many short stories and novels that focus on certain topics such as the human psyche, violence, and sometimes combines the two together. For example, “A Rose for Emily” which is about a woman named Emily, who is psychologically scarred by her father which affects her later on in life. His next story, “Dry September” is about how a misunderstood rumor can turn violent and leave both victims physically and mentally shattered. “That Evening Sun” is about a slave named Nancy in which her marital problems lead her to be psychologically unstable and ultimately murdered.
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When Emily was younger, her father mentally caused violence by rejecting all of the men that she brought home. “We remembered all the young men her father had driven away”. Once her father dies, his “violence” scars her and she begins to long for something to replace what her father took from her. “We knew that with nothing left, she would have to cling to that which had robbed her” (“A Rose for Emily” 628). As time passes, the psychological affects from her father’s violence evolves into physical violence. When Emily starts dating Homer Barron, the townspeople are glad that she found something in life the made her happy. Their opinion on the situation changes, however, when they start to become more serious. Since Emily is of higher class than Barron, people start to see their relationship as a “disgrace to the town and a bad example for the young people” (“A Rose for Emily” 630). However, Emily has other things on her agenda. One day, she goes the local druggist and purchases arsenic to kill rats. The townspeople do not believe that she is killing rats, but that she is going to kill herself , “which would be the best thing” (“A Rose for Emily” 632). Ultimately, Barron will be the only “rat” that Emily kills, which solidifies the mistaken judgement of the …show more content…
The story mainly showcases the daily life of a slave named Nancy through the perspective of another slave named Quentin. Nancy is married to Jesus, “a short black man, with a razor scar down his face”, who does not treat Nancy with any respect. When the women are washing the clothes, “sometimes the husbands [of the washing women] would fetch and deliver the clothes, but Jesus never did that for Nancy” (“That Evening Sun” 1). When she gets arrested, she tries to commit suicide by using her dress to hang herself. When the jailer hears a noise coming from Nancy’s cell, and finds her “stark naked, and her belly already swelling out a little, like a little balloon. The story then suggests that Jesus is not the father when Nancy says “It never come off your vine, though” when Jesus calls that bump a “watermelon”. One morning, Nancy wakes up and notices that Jesus was gone.[ She states that “he quit me, done gone to Memphis I suppose”. ] One day, Nancy gets word that Jesus was back in town, but she immediately becomes scared to go home. She is afraid that Jesus will kill her for being pregnant with someone else’s baby. When Mr. Compson says that there was no need to be scared, she replies “can’t nobody do nothing with him, he say I done woke up the devil in him and ain’t but one thing going to lay him down again” (“That Evening Sun” 2). Even though Jesus does not respect
When Emily was younger, her father mentally caused violence by rejecting all of the men that she brought home. “We remembered all the young men her father had driven away”. Once her father dies, his “violence” scars her and she begins to long for something to replace what her father took from her. “We knew that with nothing left, she would have to cling to that which had robbed her” (“A Rose for Emily” 628). As time passes, the psychological affects from her father’s violence evolves into physical violence. When Emily starts dating Homer Barron, the townspeople are glad that she found something in life the made her happy. Their opinion on the situation changes, however, when they start to become more serious. Since Emily is of higher class than Barron, people start to see their relationship as a “disgrace to the town and a bad example for the young people” (“A Rose for Emily” 630). However, Emily has other things on her agenda. One day, she goes the local druggist and purchases arsenic to kill rats. The townspeople do not believe that she is killing rats, but that she is going to kill herself , “which would be the best thing” (“A Rose for Emily” 632). Ultimately, Barron will be the only “rat” that Emily kills, which solidifies the mistaken judgement of the …show more content…
The story mainly showcases the daily life of a slave named Nancy through the perspective of another slave named Quentin. Nancy is married to Jesus, “a short black man, with a razor scar down his face”, who does not treat Nancy with any respect. When the women are washing the clothes, “sometimes the husbands [of the washing women] would fetch and deliver the clothes, but Jesus never did that for Nancy” (“That Evening Sun” 1). When she gets arrested, she tries to commit suicide by using her dress to hang herself. When the jailer hears a noise coming from Nancy’s cell, and finds her “stark naked, and her belly already swelling out a little, like a little balloon. The story then suggests that Jesus is not the father when Nancy says “It never come off your vine, though” when Jesus calls that bump a “watermelon”. One morning, Nancy wakes up and notices that Jesus was gone.[ She states that “he quit me, done gone to Memphis I suppose”. ] One day, Nancy gets word that Jesus was back in town, but she immediately becomes scared to go home. She is afraid that Jesus will kill her for being pregnant with someone else’s baby. When Mr. Compson says that there was no need to be scared, she replies “can’t nobody do nothing with him, he say I done woke up the devil in him and ain’t but one thing going to lay him down again” (“That Evening Sun” 2). Even though Jesus does not respect