Dorette Sobolewski is a PhD Candidate in American Studies at the University of Glasgow in Scotland. Her thesis research focuses on class, history, and region in the novels of Willa Cather and Ellen Glasgow. Her publications include an article on the Southern race and class constructs in William Faulkner's fiction, published in Bonds and Borders: Identity, Imagination and Transformation (Cambridge Scholars Publishing), and a paper on Faulkner and the Southern plantation mansion published as conference proceedings by the University of Cambridge.
Submitted by tmtowner@utdall... on Tue, 2013-11-26 15:36
Armstid tells his wife Martha that Lena Grove "says that somebody down at Samson's told her there is a fellow named Burch or something working at the planing mill in Jefferson" (16).
Submitted by tmtowner@utdall... on Tue, 2013-11-26 15:30
The group of men at Varner's store in Light in August are there on Saturday morning to watch as the pregnant Lena Grove descends from Armstid's wagon. They are described as "squatting" and "already spitting across the heelgnawed porch" (25). They "listen quietly" as the tells her story, and are all sure she will never again see the father of the child she carries (26).
