Barn Burning, Red Leaves, That Evening Sun | Ideas For Group Discussions

Much of the pleasure of dealing with these three short stories is in the connections they have to other Faulkner works: the Snopes trilogy and The Unvanquished for "Barn Burning," The Sound and the Fury and Absalom, Absalom! for "That Evening Sun," and the other Indian stories in The Collected Stories of William Faulkner and the Sam Fathers stories in Go Down, Moses for "Red Leaves." Even though characters may have the same name, many of their traits and sometimes even their names are modified in Faulkner's imagination between works. The Ab Snopes of...

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