ess. As,
             one reads and absorbs the words, actions and character of these two men he
             or she is stricken with the idea that both these men are the best examples
             of their class because they were the most financially successful
             Percy was able to rise above the economic reality of his region partly
             through the prominence of his ancestry, the luck of being born into a
             family with money, partly through the value of education and especially
             through his valiant war record. The full gambit of the work is
             representative of his complexity. As he is lays down his own personal
             memories of one of the most horrific experiences any man can live through,
             war the reader is drawn into his human and admirable side and yet his
             privilege leads us to other conclusions about his character as a whole.
             His family could afford to travel, not a commonly available objective even
             among the wealthy during the years of Percy's life. His family was able to
             send their son to be educated at Harvard Law School, also not a common
             situation, at this time. It was through luck and knowledge that he was
             able to develop a successful political career and return to his native
             Mississippi with the notoriety and ability to lead, those within his class.
             There is little about Percy that really strikes the reader as
             admirable and yet he is an admirable man, especially with regard to his
             financial and political success and of coarse his war record.
             Additionally, he served as an example for his own class and the white class
             just below his own. Yet, his actions are in many ways deplorable. In
             these memoirs there is a symbolic sense of Percy's self-possessed
             importance. He represents himself with only a vague sense of humility and
             an even lesser degree of fallibility. In f
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