The Wild Palms (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: William Faulkner
- First Published: 1939
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Tragicomedy
- Time of Work: 1927 and 1937
- Setting: United States
- Principal Characters: Harry Wilbourne, Charlotte Rittenmeyer, Francis “Rat” Rittenmeyer, The Tall Convict, The Pale Convict, The Woman
- Genres: Long fiction, Satire
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Love or romance, Crime or criminals, 1920’s, 1930’s, Pregnancy, Cajuns, Robbery or robbers, Punishment, Abortion, Idealism, Floods, Innocence
- Locales: New Orleans, LA, Chicago, IL, Mississippi, Utah, Mississippi River
The Story:
Old Man. There were two convicts. One was tall, lean, about twenty-five, with long Indian-black hair, who was serving fifteen years for a botched train robbery. The second convict was short and plump, and almost hairless, like something exposed when one turned over a rock or a log. The second convict was serving 139 years for his participation in a gas station robbery in which the attendant was killed, although probably not by the second convict. Both convicts were doing time at the Mississippi State penal farm, which ran along the Mississippi. The river was...
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