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Dry September
Title: Dry September
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 1582 | Pages: 6.7 (approximately 235 words/page)
Dry September
It is important to bear in mind that William Faulkner’s short stories take place in the fictional county of Yoknapatawpha (Northern Mississippi). It is also important to stress that Faulkner lived the greater part of his life in the town of Oxford, Mississippi, which served as his model for the fictional Jefferson, the setting of many of his short stories.
Faulkner’s family lived during the prosperous decades of Mississippi. However, after the war …showed first 75 words of 1582 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1582 total…too proud to accept the defeat and kept leading their lives trying to ignore the disturbing reality.
By telling us the gruesome murder of an innocent and defenseless black man, Faulkner severely criticizes the narrow-minded, biased, hypocritical, and unscrupulous mentality of the Southern society, a society based on appearance rather than truth, and causes us to reflect on many issues that have affected our society throughout the centuries, and may continue to affect us always.
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