William Faulkner’s Dry September and That Evening Sun :: Faulkner’s Dry September Essays

William Faulkners Dry September and That Evening solarizeWilliam Faulkners Dry September, and That Evening Sun have to very obvious things in common they leave many unanswered questions. There is no real ending to either story, and the reader is leave to imagine what happens in the end of each story. In Dry September, I was left wondering whether or not Will really did anything to Minnie Cooper. My distrust tells me no, that she was just an old lonely woman who wanted attention, or who construed this offense in her head. I was also left wondering whatever happened to the barber and Will. Did they run off to town, only to be chased pop out again, or were they rebels no, forced to find a new home? The ending part aboutMc Lendon when he is mad at his wife for waiting up for him, and she says Dont John. I couldnt sleep....The heat something. Please John. Youre hurting me leaves me wondering even-tempered is he mad because he did not find Will once he had jumped out of the car, or i s he all riled up because he has gotten Will, and doesnt want his wife to know where he has been all night?That Evening Sun does not have a conclusive ending either. My first-year question while reading this was why is everyone so afraid of Jesus? On page 290, the Jason says ... mother told us to not have anything to do with Jesus. Why would incur say this I wondered as I was reading the story. Nancy too seems frightened of Jesus. In section three of the story, Nancy is trying to get the children to ask their mother and father if she can spend the night because, though she doesnt tell the children, she is afraid of Jason. In the end of the story, on page 307, Nancy says I got it. It was on the table when I came in. It was a hog bone with blood meat still on it, laying by the lamp. Hes out there. When yawl walk out that door, I gone. Faulkner never lets us know what exactly the hog bone represents, or if in deed it was really there, or this is just Nancy trying to lie to let Jason let her stay with him for the night. The story, however, ends before we learn what happens to Nancy, if anything.