The Corruption with Modernization in Faulkner’s The Country :: Faulkner Country Short Stories

The Corruption with Modernization in Faulkners The dry landThe disruption of traditional values and ways of life that accompany the advanced(a)ization of the U.S. seems to be a common theme through verboten the Country section of Faulkners Collected Stories. In Barn Burning Abner Snopes seems to detect that the world is against him Dont you know all they wanted was a chance to get at me (8). He sees fire as the mavin weapon for the preservation of integrity (8), and it is app atomic number 18nt that he feels the disparity in standard of living between farm owners such as major de Spain, and workers like himself to be an injustice and an injury to him (but then again, maybe hes just plain evil, as Faulkners movie of him as stiff, cold, and always in dark clothing intimates). In Shingles for the Lord, the modern ideas about work imparted to Solon Quick from his experience with the WPA are presented as ridiculouslabor put toward repairing a church calculated out precisely into wo rk units (29-30). Could Faulkner be presenting the idea that so-called progress and the grounding of capitalism and government intervention has corrupted packbecome the brisk church at which they worship? In The Tall Men, a form of Gemeinschaft vs. Gesellschaft theme is evident. I really like this story. It conveys how difficult the changes in the U.S. during the earliest part of the 20th century must have been for the country people who were tied to the land. New Deal programs like the WPA and AAA, three-letter reasons for a man not to work (58), are a problem for the McCallums because the programs made nasty work unprofitable and encouraged laziness and dependency as farmers muzzy autonomy and became beholden to the government. The old marshal, Mr. Gombault, tries to make Mr. Pearson, the government investigator, understand that the McCallums are tall or prideful men whose self-sufficiency and friendly minutes have not given way to the impersonal deals and something-for-no thing mentality of the reinvigorated era (its interesting that the characterizations of the McCallums completely contradict Mr. Pearsons characterization of these people as lazy, selfish, and ungrateful or unpatriotic, on page 46). once more in A Bear Hunt, traditional, country people are rectify apart from literate, town-bred people (65) and in the last two stories, both featuring the Grier family (relation to reticuloendothelial system Grier of Shingles for the Lord?