1. The Shifting Of Class And Color Lines In The South: A Look At The Impact Of The Civil War
Though there was a change after the war, they were inside and Sutpen was now in a chair while Wash was sitting on any piece of scrap left, the change was only minor. ... This illumination of the character of Sutpen helps illustrate the idea that the Civil War did more to expose the fallacies and flaws in the southern chivalric attitude than actually transform it. ... The "Negro" boy is a difficult character to understand; due to his inability to free himself from slavery when the law says he is a free man. ... Faulkner character Sutpen supplied the illustration of the damages that were to s...
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- Grade Level: High School