RIP Raleigh

To be honest, I really didn’t see Smithy getting hit coming. I don’t understand how his bike getting destroyed could further progress the story, considering it’s from his childhood. I thought he was going to go all the way to California on that bike, and now it’s gone. How exactly does this work with the story at hand?!

Then again, I guess this book is more about telling a realistic story than about shaping the plot-line and the events occurring within around the story the author wants to tell. So, no matter how much I don’t like it/don’t understand it, Smithy got hit and that’s that.

For those that haven’t done the reading yet, or have done the reading and have a different suggestion, what do you think Raleigh getting destroyed does to progress the plot of the story?

Darl Nooooooo

Darl was the biggest shock of all. Of everything that happened in this book, him getting carted off to the looney bin was mind-blowing. The entire novel, I felt like Darl was just smarter than everyone there, and that people just misunderstood him because he was different. He even knew that they would eventually come for him.

Yet, in the end, I feel like I probably should’ve expected this, considering Faulkner hadn’t really set any of us up for a happy ending.

The Old Mrs. Bundren

I might be a little late in saying this, but Faulkner really tripped me up with his portrayal of Addie. My first instinctive thought was to hold her up to such a high standard, projecting the idea of a woman from the city leaving her beloved home to go live with the man she loves and raise kids with him. Instead, I received a woman that enjoyed reprimanding the children she taught while a teacher. And even though I don’t want to believe it, the more I think about it, we could have expected this. The fact that Addie doesn’t even look at Anse on her deathbed, the fact that Cora talks about how she didn’t even like Anse (even though we’re led to not trust Cora in general). It’s just really upsetting, and while I wish it wasn’t this way, it’s how it happened, and at least she got buried where she “wanted” to be.

I just wonder what made her like this...

An Idea I Briefly Thought About

What would happen if someone wrote about Sherlock Holmes from BBC’s Sherlock for this research paper. It’d definitely be an interesting topic to write about, considering Sherlock isn’t what people would call a “hero,” based on the definition of a hero. I mean sure, he solves cases, but he doesn’t really do it for justice or for getting the bad guy in jail. He does it because it’s challenging and interesting. Considering that Sherlock isn’t the world’s most “heroic” hero, what would that do for the content of the paper?