s nail keg at the back of the crowded room,
knew he smelled cheese, and more: from where he sat he could see the
ranked shelves close-packed with the solid, squat, dynamic shapes of
tin cans whose labels his stomach read, not from the lettering which
meant nothing to his mind but from the scarlet devils and the silver
curve of fish--†the smell and sense just a little of fear because
mostly of despair and grief, the old fierce pull of blood. He could not
see the table where the Justice sat and before which his father and his
father's enemy (our enemy he thought in that despair; ourn! mine and
hisn both! He's my father! ) stood, but he could hear themâ€" (Faulkner
The last line above foreshadows the mental and emotional struggle that
Sarty was to encounter. This struggle emerged from the fact that while he
loved his father and even understood the reason behind h
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