Dry September

William Faulkner once remarked, "I love the South; I hate the South." This Nobel Prize winner who rarely strayed far from his home of Oxford, Mississippi, depicted the South with honesty and...

One example of irony is Miss Minnie's promising past. In her youth, she had been able to ride the "crest of the town's social life," enjoying a great popularity in her community. Somehow, though,...

William Faulkner has carefully constructed the story so that numerous characters play equally significant roles. As the barber, Hawkshaw, acts as the voice of reason in opposing the attacks on Will...

Will Mayes is the protagonist of "Dry September." He's an African American man in a small Southern town who's rumored to have had some unspecified kind of involvement with an unmarried white woman...

McLendon is a former soldier during World War I, and he was even decorated for valor for commanding troops in France. He seems to embody authority in many ways: his feet set wide apart as he...

With regard to William Faulkner's short story, "Dry September," to identify point of view, it is important to be able to differentiate between the several kinds that authors may use. There are four...

Weather is often used to set the tone in fiction writing. For the writer, it's a very convenient tool—a way to inject descriptive, sensory notes into the writing that make the reader feel more...