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Author: William Faulkner
First Published: 1959
Type of Work: Novel
Type of Plot: Social realism
Time of Work: 1908-1948
Setting: Mississippi
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

Mink (M. C.) Snopes, the central character. He is a child-sized man who lives by his own code, trusting “Old Moster” not to play tricks on him. Mink’s code lets him accept self-caused trouble. He is patient, humble, tenacious, hardworking, focused, thoughtful about things, and a strict rule keeper. His thoughts pepper the novel, and most of them read like poetry. Against all odds, he is pardoned after thirty-eight years in the Parchman prison. He manages to get a gun in Memphis and go to Jefferson to kill Flem. After the murder, he remains free.

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