That Evening Sun | Uncertainties
In the following essay, the author examines unanswered questions in “That Evening Sun,” and whether Faulkner implies answers or renders them unknowable.
Is Nancy alive or dead in the morning? This is the ‘‘overwhelming question’’ raised by Faulkner's ‘‘That Evening Sun.’’ Readers have sought an answer both outside the story and in. Malcolm Cowley thought he had found proof of Nancy's murder in a passage from The Sound and the Fury (published 1929, two years before the story) in Caddy's reference to some bones left from the time "when Nancy fell in the ditch and Roskus shot her and the buzzards came and undressed her,’’ but Stephen Whicher shattered that claim by...
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