The Hamlet (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: William Faulkner
- First Published: 1940
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Psychological realism
- Time of Work: Late nineteenth century
- Setting: Mississippi
- Principal Characters: Will Varner, Jody, Eula, V. K. Ratliff, Ab Snopes, Flem Snopes, Isaac Snopes, Mink Snopes, Labove, Henry Armstid
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction
- Subjects: Power, personal or social, Tricks, Sex or sexuality, South or Southerners, Nineteenth century, Rural or country life, Good and evil, Greed, Folklore
- Locales: Yoknapatawpha County (fictive)
The Story:
In his later years, Will Varner, owner of the Old Frenchman place and almost everything else in Frenchman’s Bend, began to turn many of his affairs over to his thirty-year-old son, Jody. One day, while Jody sat in the Varner store, he met Ab Snopes, a newcomer to town, and Ab arranged to rent one of the farms owned by the Varners. Jody then found out from Ratliff, a salesman, that Ab had been suspected of burning barns on other farms where he had been a tenant. Jody and his father concluded that Ab’s unsavory reputation would do them no harm. Jody became afraid,...
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