“Dry September” Discussion

The last paragraph continues the first paragraph in its overall sense of ambiguity. It starts of with “he”, Faulkner does not provide us with the antecedent of this pronoun, yet if one reads the whole story or rather the last section, they are able to infer “he” relates to Mc Lendon. This reflects his use “it” in the first paragraph. Faulkner also uses certain words often associated with violence, “ bloody”, “aftermath”, “attacked”, “pistol”, and “hunted.” They connect the two ...