The Bear | Faulkner's Poetic Prose: Style and Meaning in "The Bear"
The author interprets "The Bear'' in much the same way as a poem would be analyzed, focusing on relationships between Lion and Boon, Sam Fathers and the bear.
Faulkner's "The Bear," published in The Saturday Evening Post and in Go Down, Moses, has received its share of critical explication, and the pattern and meaning of the novel seems to have been thoroughly discussed. Certainly there is much that can be taken for granted: the bear is a symbol of nature, its death symbolizes the loss of the wilderness and all the wilderness represents, and the wilderness seems to represent a kind of Emersonian realm where man and nature are spiritually and emotionally at one, an Edenic world before...
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