Dry September Faulkner describes the setting and characters to show the conflict and the race relations that go
Dry September
Faulkner describes the setting and characters to show the conflict and the race relations that go on in the story. There are a lot of conflicts between people not just because of the race relationship but as well as internal conflicts that are not as obvious. There are three major characters (out of 6), Hawkshaw, Minnie, and McLendon, who are the main characters and the book is divided into 5 sections. The first section is an argument over the raping of Minnie at the barbershop, the argument is basically between the world and Hawkshaw, the second section is a flashback to Minnie's life, the third section is the barbershop again, this time we see a gang being formed, the fourth section is Minnie's life now, and the fifth section gives us a little information about McLendon's background.
The overwhelming setting is a hot, dry September day, "sixty-two rainless days" (para. 1). The characters use the setting as an excuse to be irritable, defensive, after all the eaht does make people do things like that. In Part V, the part about McLendon's life at home it has his wife stating, "Don't John...I couldn't sleep...the heat; something" (para. 99). There are a lot of foreshadowing using the environment. "It had gone like fire in dry glass-the rumor, the story, whatever it was." (para. 1), which not only foreshadows the fact that word is getting out but that people are going to irritate other people and things are going to spread, be it emotions, opinions, the mob attendance, who knows? There is a lot of use of the words red and bloody and things that insinuate death or terror or disaster, especially when they are describing an incident or an area that the men at the barbershop will be at. It almost foreshadows the fighting and disagreements that are to come. The first sentence in Section III shows a bit of foreshadowing, "the barber went swiftly up the street where the sparse lights, insect-swirled, glared in the rigid and violent suspension in the lifeless air" (para. 53). This foreshadows the oncoming violent of Will Mayes being killed.
Faulkner describes the setting and characters to show the conflict and the race relations that go on in the story. There are a lot of conflicts between people not just because of the race relationship but as well as internal conflicts that are not as obvious. There are three major characters (out of 6), Hawkshaw, Minnie, and McLendon, who are the main characters and the book is divided into 5 sections. The first section is an argument over the raping of Minnie at the barbershop, the argument is basically between the world and Hawkshaw, the second section is a flashback to Minnie's life, the third section is the barbershop again, this time we see a gang being formed, the fourth section is Minnie's life now, and the fifth section gives us a little information about McLendon's background.
The overwhelming setting is a hot, dry September day, "sixty-two rainless days" (para. 1). The characters use the setting as an excuse to be irritable, defensive, after all the eaht does make people do things like that. In Part V, the part about McLendon's life at home it has his wife stating, "Don't John...I couldn't sleep...the heat; something" (para. 99). There are a lot of foreshadowing using the environment. "It had gone like fire in dry glass-the rumor, the story, whatever it was." (para. 1), which not only foreshadows the fact that word is getting out but that people are going to irritate other people and things are going to spread, be it emotions, opinions, the mob attendance, who knows? There is a lot of use of the words red and bloody and things that insinuate death or terror or disaster, especially when they are describing an incident or an area that the men at the barbershop will be at. It almost foreshadows the fighting and disagreements that are to come. The first sentence in Section III shows a bit of foreshadowing, "the barber went swiftly up the street where the sparse lights, insect-swirled, glared in the rigid and violent suspension in the lifeless air" (para. 53). This foreshadows the oncoming violent of Will Mayes being killed.
