https://padlet.com/dversa5228/pzn2kvaquct1ursr William Faulkner en-us 2022-02-28 14:21:23 UTC 2022-03-21 12:40:12 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f480.png dversa5228 https://padlet.com/dversa5228/pzn2kvaquct1ursr/wish/2069576124 By identifying the flaws in American society, William Faulkner’s work refutes the American Dream. To be specific, Faulkner’s work brings to light the inequalities of the poor and oppressed people in America’s south and the corruption of the rich oppressors.]]> 2022-02-28 14:30:03 UTC https://padlet.com/dversa5228/pzn2kvaquct1ursr/wish/2069576124 dversa5228 https://padlet.com/dversa5228/pzn2kvaquct1ursr/wish/2069585993 Faulkner writes  “The American Dream: What Happened to It.” In order to address how American Society in the south does not live up to the promise of the so-called American Dream. “For the blacks and for the poorer whites, the American Dream had remained a largely unfulfilled promise. Southerners in general, even those in better economic circumstances, had intellectual reservations about the American Dream.” (vrqonline) In this article, the author speaks on how Faulkner and his work presented American society in the south. During the time, the so-called American Dream was not something attainable for a large majority of the people in the south, especially African Americans. This quote highlights this by citing the American dream as an “unfulfilled promise”, even for those who were not in poor economic situations.]]> 2022-02-28 14:34:29 UTC https://padlet.com/dversa5228/pzn2kvaquct1ursr/wish/2069585993 dversa5228 https://padlet.com/dversa5228/pzn2kvaquct1ursr/wish/2069594128 In this essay, Joseph Bain highlights Faulkner’s use of the “Boxing Narrative” in order to present the fight between African Americans in the south and their oppressors. Specifically, “many critics and writers of the 1930s saw the boxing ring as a microcosm of the conflicts between working-class whites, African Americans, and the dominant capitalists who profited from the conflict among various disenfranchised groups… his "moral economy" provided great material for many writers… more overtly modernist writers like Faulkner, who are impossible to pigeonhole politically.” (GALE ONEFILE) This idea of a “Boxing Narrative” is used in many of Faulkner’s works in order to present the racial inequalities faced by African Americans in the south. Specifically, it highlights how the dominant groups capitalized off of the conflict in order to make more money and continue to snub the chance of those in a lower socioeconomic class getting a chance at the American Dream. The boxing ring is an allegory to the battle between African Americans trying to achieve the American Dream and the oppressors who prevent it. ]]> 2022-02-28 14:38:11 UTC https://padlet.com/dversa5228/pzn2kvaquct1ursr/wish/2069594128 dversa5228 https://padlet.com/dversa5228/pzn2kvaquct1ursr/wish/2069604544 Through this Excerpt, Robert Martin discusses Faulkner’s essay "On Privacy: The American Dream, What Happened to It," and how it displays his adamant refutation of the American Dream. Martin interprets Faulkner's belief based on his writing to be that the “American Dream, the mythic dream of freedom, opportunity, and equality, is merely a vision-a vision that is unsubstantiated in reality.” (jstor.org) As shown in many of his works, Faulkner constantly speaks on the corruption in the south and how it affects the American Dream. In addition to that, Faulkner now shows the effects of that corruption by listing the Dream as “unsubstantiated in reality” (jstor.org) This statement furthers Faulkner’s refutation as well as gives us insight as to just how far Faulkner believes we are from achieving this dream.]]> 2022-02-28 14:42:57 UTC https://padlet.com/dversa5228/pzn2kvaquct1ursr/wish/2069604544 dversa5228 https://padlet.com/dversa5228/pzn2kvaquct1ursr/wish/2069647616 By, et al. “Faulkner's Criticism of Modern America.” VQR Online, 12 Dec. 2003, https://www.vqronline.org/essay/faulkner%E2%80%99s-criticism-modern-america.

Whitehouse, Anne. "Southern voice." Cobblestone, vol. 32, no. 6, July-Aug. 2011, pp. 14+. Gale OneFile: High School Edition, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A266845651/STOM?u=clar33415&sid=bookmark-STOM&xid=7faccf9e. Accessed 18 Feb. 2022.

Bain, Joseph Grant. "Boxing Yoknapatawpha: Faulkner, Race, and Popular Front Boxing Narratives." The Southern Literary Journal, vol. 46, no. 1, fall 2013, pp. 19+. Gale OneFile: High School Edition, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A356355483/STOM?u=clar33415&sid=bookmark-STOM&xid=b8d8f1f4. Accessed 18 Feb. 2022.

Martin, Robert A. “Faulkner’s American Dream and Hightower.” College Literature, vol. 12, no. 3, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985, pp. 282–85, http://www.jstor.org/stable/25111676.

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