「저 저녁 해」에 나타난 두려움의 사회적 의미

Abstract

In "That Evening Sun", William Faulkner deals with the condition of black people in Mississippi in the early twentieth-century focused upon a black woman`s terror. Faulkner makes a distinction between Quentin as an adult narrator and Quentin as a nine-year-old child because it took Quentin fifteen years to understand the events he had experienced. Quentin portrays disintegration of Nancy, a Negro washwoman who are terrified that her husband Jesus is going to kill her. Nancy cannot count on the help of the white family in her time of need as a slave woman might have had in the old days of the past. Nancy`s lament that she is a nigger and Jason`s reiteration of his whiteness shows Nancy`s problem is based on racial discrimination. At the end of this story, Nancy knows how she will be judged by the dominant white community and resigns to her fate telling she is a nigger. Consequently, this short story is a dark portrait of white Southerners` indifference to the fears of the blacks and represents the process of marginalizing blacks as the other, and shows the social condition of the Southern Negro after Emancipation Proclamation.