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Essay on William Faulkners Spotted Horses and Mule in the Yard | ||
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This is the first 1,000 characters of 1258 words (5.03 pages) in the essay titled William Faulkners Spotted Horses and Mule in the Yard “Spotted Horses” and “Mule in the Yard” are two short stories by William Faulkner that deal with comedic animal chases. Although both provide entertaining examples of Faulkner’s work in very similar settings, on the scale of literary value, “Spotted Horses” rises above “Mule in the Yard” in depth and insight. This superiority is result of both it’s narrative style and character development, which causes “Spotted Horses” to produce an overall more powerful effect than “Mule in the Yard”.The most notable and important difference between the two stories is the contrasting narrative style. In “Spotted Horses”, the story is told in first person point of view by a narrator who observes the major events of the story but is involved in only a minor fashion. His narration provides the audience with a look at the town and it’s inhabitants through the eyes of someone living in the county of Mississippi. This adds a realistic dimension to the image of the story. It is also through this narrative style that Faulkner weaves humor into “Spotted Horses”. The narrator shows the story in a comic light simply through his words right from the introductory paragraph. For example, the audience is introduced immediately with a casual “Yes, sir. Flem Snopes has filled that whole country full of spotted horses. You can hear folks running them all day and night, whooping and hollering, and the horses running back and forth across those little wooden bridges ever now and then kind of like th... |
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Keywords: spotted horses, horses running, flem snopes, mule, narrative style, short stories by william faulkner, introductory paragraph, weaves, narrator, dialogue, audience, humor, infer, ironic situations, objective viewpoint, wooden bridges, running back and forth, seen and heard, first person point of view, literary value