"Shall Not Perish", 102 (Event)

Page Number: 
102
Order within Page: 
3
First 8-10 words of event: 
Then it happened again. It was late July,
Page Event Ends: 
103
Era: 
Midcentury (1941-)
Characters Present: 
Narrative Status: 
Narrated
Date: 
Friday, July 24, 1942 to Friday, July 31, 1942
Notes: 

Res Grier remarks that it was "Major de Spain's boy [who died]. ... The av-aytor. That was home last fall in his officer uniform" (103). The description is suggestive of the young Faulkner who, at the end of the First World War, would walk around Oxford in his flight uniform after a brief sojourn in the Royal Canadian Air Force.

Summary: 

The Griers learn of a second young man from Yoknapatawpha County who dies in World War II.

Chronological Order: 
31.00
Indeterminate Date Range: 
Keywords: 
War, Community, Loss

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