" What could Faulkner's purpose of contrasting the townspeople & the poor white farmers on the base of class suggest about early Southern 20th century life?"
Personally, I believe that I can continue to support my reflection question as the question I asked was about the plot in general and how Faulkner continues to contrast the townspeople and white farmers on the basis of class, even though the contrasting is not obvious, but it is instead seen through how each narrator characterizes another one. Some people posted several questions that could be added onto my reflective question, and those questions did not even come to mind when I created my statement. For example, people asked, "Which class do you think Faulkner favors?" or "How does this shape the plot of the story and the character?" or even how race is not a present figure in the novel, even though taking place in the early 20th century south, prejudice is still present and looked at with the factor of class. I believe I can still investigate this question because now I can look for how class affects other characters and what it will come out to be in the end. As I move on through this reading I will scope out for details about how characters like Peabody, Anse, and other characters characterize one another.
It might be interesting to see how class is used to show the idea of the “South” and what it has become after the Civil War.
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