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which discusses the character of Nancy in Faulkner’s “That Evening Sun.” No additional
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It is a story of one womans fears, fears of the night where her husband will come out of the darkness and kill her. The woman is an African American
servant and she has no other people but the white people who employ her. She clings to them in the hopes that she will be saved from her husband Jesus.
The following paper examines the character of Nancy, the African American washerwoman, and examines the relationship between her and her white employees. Nancy First and foremost we
note that the racial differences in the story are very powerful as Nancy seems to never be understood by her white employers. They all but force her to do demeaning
work, never stopping to think of her as a human being as we see when one of the children is sent to get Nancy for breakfast: "Father says for you
to come on and get breakfast, Caddy said. Father said. Father says its over a half an hour now, and youve got to come this minute" (Faulkner). But, she is
a fighter it seems for she does not just up and quit her other work merely to attend to their urgent need. We also note that she is a
fighter due to the story regarding her missing teeth. In that incident she was demanding that an individual pay her for the work she had done: "When you going to
pay me, white man? When you going to pay me, white man? Its been three times now since you paid me a cent" (Faulkner). The man knocked her down and
knocked out her teeth. In these two simple illustrations we see that while she is a very simple washer woman, and an African American, she does have something of an
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