Sanctuary | Characters
The characters of Sanctuary are almost all disturbing. Temple Drake seems to swing wildly from, one personality to another, from a teenager terrified of sexual violation, to a vampire who will kill for sex, to a mechanical doll who will calmly lie for Popeye in court. Popeye looks like a child playing at being a gangster. He visits his mother annually, yet he exploits and kills without a twinge of conscience. Faulkner develops a detailed biography of Popeye in the last chapter to show the human side of his inhumanity, that his monstrousness has its source in the failure of his...
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