"That Evening Sun"

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This paper is an analysis of William Faulkner's "That Evening Sun." It discusses the unwillingness of southern Americans (represented by the Compsons) to help anyone that is different than they are. It also discusses the era of racism in Southern history. It also discusses the similarity between Faulkner's two books: "Faulkner in the University" and "That Evening Sun."

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"William Faulkner's "That Evening Sun" is a short story published in 1931 in a short story collection by Faulkner called That 13. The story itself is partially about the about many things including: white indifference to black peoples during the "Jim Crowe" era of the south, the terror that one black woman faces alone yet among people, a coming of age for the narrator realizing that the world in which he lives is neglectful, and a multitude of other topics. The plight of almost all the characters in the story revolves around a kind of acceptable bias that black fears are not as worthy of notice or as acceptable as white ones. This short fiction is really a story about the south and its customs and biases in the old school of racism. Though the end is never clearly written in the story, Faulkner is suggesting at the end that there could have been a better end for Nancy if only people had cared enough about a black washerwoman to take her concerns seriously and without regard to skin color or status."

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