Light in August | Wendy Perkins
Perkins is a professor of American and English literature and film. In this essay, she examines the tensions between community and individual in the novel.
Wendy Perkins
Perkins is a professor of American and English literature and film. In this essay, she examines the tensions between community and individual in the novel.
Byron Bunch, the inconspicuous mill worker in William Faulkner's Light in August, becomes the moral conscience of the novel as he observes the townspeople of Jefferson City and declares, "people everywhere are about the same." Byron not only offers astute judgments of the citizens of the city; he also notes their harsh, even brutal treatment of individuals who do not fit into their notions...
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