That Evening Sun
About this work
Quentin Compson narrates the story of his family’s African-American washerwoman, Nancy, who fears that her husband will murder her because she is pregnant with a white-man’s child. The events in the story are witnessed by a young Quentin and his two siblings, Caddy and Jason, who do not fully understand the adult world of race and class conflict that they are privy to. ---------- Also contained in: - Britannica Library of Great American Writing: Volume II - Collected Stories of William Faulkner (opens in a new tab) - Faulkner Reader (opens in a new tab) - Literature: Structure, sound, and sense: Fourth Edition - Meistererzählungen - Moderns and Contemporaries - Portable Faulkner (opens in a new tab) - Selected Short Stories of William Faulkner (opens in a new tab) - Shapes of Fiction - Short Fiction: Classic and Contemporary: Second Edition - Story and Its Writer: Compact Fourth Edition - Story and Its Writer: Compact Eighth Edition - Story-Makers - These 13 (opens in a new tab) - Trio: Fourth Edition - Twice-Told Tales (opens in a new tab)
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Subjects
- short stories
- fiction
- African Americans
- husband and wife
- race relations