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We fixed a pallet in the kitchen for Nancy. One night we waked up, hearing the sound. It was not singing and it was not crying, coming up the dark stairs. There was a light in mother's room and we heard father going down the hall, down the back stairs, and Caddy and I went into the hall. The floor was cold.
The setting sun is feared by the singer of the spiritual and Nancy alike. Many critics refer to "That Evening Sun" as one of the finest examples of narrative point of view. The story is told by Quentin Compson, whose voice Faulkner utilizes at two distinct times in the boy's life. First, we have 24-year-old Quentin remembering a 15-year-old ...
That Evening Sun. Quentin Compson, reminisces about his hometown of Jefferson, Mississippi, which has changed a great deal since he was a child. The town has been modernized, with paved streets, telephone poles, and a city laundry; “even the Negro women” now have cars, which they use when they are doing the laundry for the white families in ...
30. Apr. 2024 · Table of Contents. “That Evening Sun” by William Faulkner, first published in 1931 in the collection “These 13,” demonstrates Faulkner’s mastery of narrative technique and his ability to write haunting and poignant tale. The story’s non-linear structure, clear imagery, and exploration of themes such as racism, class, and the decline ...
19. März 2013 · That Evening Sun: Short Story. William Faulkner. Harper Collins, Mar 19, 2013 - Fiction - 25 pages. Quentin Compson narrates the story of his family’s African-American washerwoman, Nancy, who fears that her husband will murder her because she is pregnant with a white-man’s child. The events in the story are witnessed by a young Quentin and ...
About: "That Evening Sun" is a short story first published under the title "That Evening Sun Go Down" in March 1931 in the American Mercury magazine. The title is taken from the song "St. Louis Blues," composed by W.C. Handy in 1914 and popularized by Bessie Smith and Louis Armstrong in 1927. There are four different versions of the story: a ...
Setting. "That Evening Sun'' is set in Faulkner's familiar fictional town of Jefferson, in his invented Yoknapatawpha County, at the turn of the century—some critics suggest 1898 or 1899 ...
