"Spotted Horses"

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This paper discusses William Faulkner's "Spotted Horses", which revolves around an auction where Flem Snopes sells some wild, good for nothing, horses to farmers of a Southern village. It examines how the character of Flem plays the most important but very short role in the story while other characters including that of Eck Snopes, Mrs. Littlejohn and Henry Armstid play longer more influential role in depicting the forces of good and evil. It looks at how though "Spotted Horses" discusses an individual isolated case where wild ponies are sold to unassuming farmers and this gives rise to some truly hilarious situations, it has many characters which infiltrate from other stories too.

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"Faulkner has always been concerned with the subject of good and bad, but it is not exactly easy to detect these forces in his stories because of the fact that they are often obscured between the lines and can be seen in various symbols. In spotted horses we come across the universal conflict that we notice in almost every short story by the author. Snopes and Sartoris are shown as representatives of two separate worlds his works and they symbolize good and bad and traditional and non traditional."

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