Sanctuary | Themes
One of the main themes of Sanctuary is the impact on society of the decline of the power of tradition in the lives of Southerners in the early twentieth century.
Temple Drake, child of a prosperous judge, and Popeye, the orphaned child of a poor deserted woman and a syphilitic wanderer share the same deficiency. No spiritual tradition has been passed on to them by their parents or their culture. For them, personality is not an organic growth from within based on values learned and developed, but a group of possible roles they may try on or take off as impulse directs. Hollow at...
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