Description

First published in 1931, this traditional emotional melodrama hasbeen considered more of a cultural record in his sad tale of the South than simple tale. From Popeye, a moonshining racketeer with no mind and Forehead Drake, stunning, uninterested and susceptible, to Harace Benbow, an attorney of respect and decency wanting for more in his existence, and Gowan Stevens, university student with a weakness for drink, Faulkner creates of changing cultural values and purchase. A menacing cast peppered with social outcasts and perverts execute abduction, murder, and madness in this severe and raw tale of incredible and motiveless evil.Students of Faulkner have discovered an allegorical meaning of "Refuge" as a discuss the destruction of previous Southis social order by modern modernism and materialistic exploitation. Popeye and his co-horts signify this change that's corrupting the historical practices of the South, represented by Horace Stevens, which are no further in a position to defend the poor white-trash and Negro because of middle-class inbred and apathy assault.