Delta Autumn (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: William Faulkner
- First Published: 1942
- Type of Plot: Realism
- Time of Work: November, 1940
- Setting: Mississippi
- Principal Characters: Isaac McCaslin, Roth Edmonds, The Negress
- Genres: Realism, Short fiction
- Subjects: Values, Politics, Interracial relationships, Hunting or hunters, Isolation, Wildlife
- Locales: Mississippi
The Story
The story is set on the eve of the 1940 presidential election. As Isaac McCaslin and his fellow hunters drive the two hundred miles it takes to get to the wilderness, he reflects on his sixty years of hunting and of how the land has been radically changed by human habitation. His life seems to draw inward as the wilderness itself draws inward in retreat from human progress.
The first half of the story is told almost exclusively from Isaac's point of view. He seems noble, selfless, and magnanimous—even in the face of the fact that his beloved wilderness has...
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