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A five page paper looking at this early novel by William Faulkner in terms of its perception of women’s roles in Southern society during the Civil War and Reconstruction. The paper concludes that Faulkner is most comfortable with women taking an active part in the war effort if they plan to return to being proper ladies when the war ends. No additional sources.
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File: D0_KBunvanq.doc
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as the locus for many of his novels, and a family, the Sartoris family, whose members served as the central protagonists for the Yoknapatawpha stories. But in The Unvanquished he
takes the Sartoris family back before the early twentieth century (his typical setting) to the years surrounding the Civil War. Here he shows them to be strong, principled, but unconventional
in their thinking, and ultimately heroic in stature. He also shows their women to be no exception to this family rule. His story begins with young Bayard Sartoris, a twelve-year-old
boy at the time the novel opens. Bayard has a best friend, Ringo, who is a black boy. One might think that such a racially-mixed friendship in the South during
the war years would place the issue of race squarely at the center of this novel. And yet, oddly, it is not. The beginning of the novel explores Bayard and
Ringo as they grow and learn to deal with the inevitable challenges of adolescence, and the end of the book deals with Bayards growing recognition of what it really means
to be an adult in a changed world. If the book has any observations to make about race at all, they mainly point to how peculiar it is that
Northerners make such a big deal out of something that wasnt originally a big deal to Southerners at all. Bayards Granny, like many Southerners, does not see the Civil War
as being about race, but about the North trying to take away the Southern way of life. Granny has a side business forging Union signatures to forms requisitioning mules, and
then selling the mules she receives back to the Yankees; her intent is not to help the Yankees win, but to obtain money she can then use to restore the
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