e thwarted because of his height; he then joined the Canadian RAF, but although he went through basic training, by the time he was combat ready the war had ended. On returning to Oxford, MS, Faulkner led people to believe that he had fought in the war; he also wore a uniform around town. Like Hemingway, there was real suspicion over exactly what role Faulkner had in the war. And like H, Faulkner began to write about the war in his fiction-his first novel was called Soldier's Pay. As I lay dying: 1930.
             White trash: detritus, waste products. No sense of movement: or rather, movement that does not lead the characters anywhere. Upward mobility: the great myth of American culture, comes crashing down with the Bundrens. They're geographically challenged. They can
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