Spotted Horses (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: William Faulkner
- First Published: 1931
- Type of Plot: Realism
- Time of Work: The early twentieth century
- Setting: Mississippi
- Principal Characters: Flem Snopes, Buck Hipps, Henry Armstid, Eck Snopes, Vernon Tull
- Genres: Psychological fiction
- Subjects: Class conflict
- Locales: Mississippi
The Story
Flem Snopes returns to Frenchman's Bend after an absence of many months in Texas, accompanied by Buck Hipps and a string of wild spotted horses. The horses are confined in a lot next to the town hotel and put up for auction. On the day of the auction, people from the farms and surrounding countryside gather around the lot but at first are generally reluctant to bid on the animals, which have several times shown that they are unbroken and frankly dangerous. Hipps taunts the audience to no avail but finally succeeds in getting the auction going by giving Eck Snopes one...
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