The Mansion (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
At a glance:
- Author: William Faulkner
- First Published: 1959
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Social realism
- Time of Work: 1908-1948
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction, Social realism
- Subjects: Justice, Murder or homicide, South or Southerners, Nineteenth century, Betrayal, War, Mississippi, Duty, Revenge, Greed, Small-town life, Civil wars, Houses, mansions, or manors, Pornography, Deafness or hearing-impaired persons
- Locales: Mississippi
Places Discussed
Mansion. Antebellum Mississippi mansion that is the residence of Flem Snopes and later his daughter Linda. The mansion is the overarching symbol of the novel. Gaudy and materialistic and furnished tastelessly with objects imported from New York and Europe, the oversized, conspicuous, and centrally located house exhibits the best that poor white trash can do in the Old South (and, this, by hiring what would later be called “home decorators”). Snopes can buy the semblances and symbols of power and respectability and he can move within the town’s upper...
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