The Town (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: William Faulkner
- First Published: 1957
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Psychological realism
- Time of Work: 1909-1927
- Setting: Jefferson, Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi
- Principal Characters: Flem Snopes, Eula Varner Snopes, Linda Snopes, Manfred de Spain, Gavin Stevens, V. K. Ratliff, Charles Mallison, Montgomery Ward Snopes, Wallstreet Panic Snopes, Byron Snopes, Mink Snopes, Eck Snopes, I. O. Snopes
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction
- Subjects: Family or family life, Power, personal or social, Suicide, South or Southerners, Nineteenth century, Class consciousness, Adultery, Mississippi, Greed, Ambition, Banks, bankers, or banking
- Locales: Yoknapatawpha County (fictive)
The Story:
The Snopes family, which came out of nowhere after the Civil War, had successfully completed the invasion of Frenchman’s Bend. Now Flem Snopes, son of Ab Snopes, a bushwhacker, sharecropper, and horse thief, was ready for the next goal, the domination of Jefferson, county seat of Yoknapatawpha County. Flem Snopes was ruthless, shrewd, uneducated, and possessed of a fanatic belief in the power of money. The townspeople, who had seen him when he took over Frenchman’s Bend and then left it under control of other family members, were wondering about Flem’s next...
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