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1、Dry September“Dry September” is written by William Faulkner in 1931. The story takes place in 1920-1930, just after the First World War and it starts in a small barbershop in Jefferson, Pennsylvania, USA. In the barbershop we meet the barber him self, who is a middle age thin, sand-colored man. The
2、barber is called Hawkshaw. We do also meet a second barber, a young man called Jack, a client and a drummer. Suddenly a thick man called John McLendon appears in the shop. John McLendon had been a commander for the troops at the front in France and had been decorated for valour. McLendon interferes
3、the discussion which is running in the barbershop. The men are discussing whether an unmarried lady from the town called Miss Minnie Cooper had been attacked and insulted by a local Negro called Will Mayes. Miss Minnie Cooper is in the town known as a lady at the age of 38 or 39. She is ordinary loo
4、king, and when she was young, she had a slender nervous body. Her face has a bright haggard look. She is living in a small house together with her invalid mother and a thin sallow, unflagging aunt. Minnie has never married, and her old school friends call her “aunt Minnie”. She once had an affair wi
5、th a cashier in the bank, but the affair ended eight years ago. Since then Minnie didnt date anyone. She spends her afternoons in the town together with her young cousins (the children of her old school friends). The town calls her “poor Minnie”, because she is lonely.In the barbershop the men are a
6、rguing because the barber claims that Minnie has invented the attack. He thinks that she wants to have attention from people in town. On the other hand McLendon thinks that Will Mayes - just because he is a Negro has been able to attack and insult Minnie. McLendon thinks that they should do somethin
7、g about it. He gathers the men in the barbershop, who agrees with him, and they get out into a car.At the same time the barber leaves the shop, he wants to warn Will Mayes, but he meets the other group at the street, and they continue their discussion. The barber tries to prevent the group to go fur
8、ther, but without any luck. They say they just want to talk to Will. After a little while the barber gets into the car with the other men. When they arrive to the place where Will works as a night watchman, McLendon calls for Will. After a while Will appears and asks what they want. Will claims that
9、 he had done nothing to Miss Minnie, and he doesnt understand what they want from him. The group forces Will into the car. After a while the barber gets cold feet and wants to exit the car. McLendon wont let him out, so the barber has to jump out of the running car. The car with Will disappears and
10、one can only think what happens to Will Mayes. Perhaps they have beaten him up or shot him or something cruel. Back in town Miss Minnie is getting ready to go out for supper. She is trembling and her eyes have a feverish look. Everybody ask her if she is ready to go out again. At the street everybod
11、y talks about her and the Negro and then she starts trembling again. Suddenly she starts laughing and she cant stop again. Her friends carry her home, and put her into her bed. She has lost her mind.People in town start to talk about if anything really happened to the poor Minnie. At the end we meet
12、 John McLendon again. He arrives at home where his wife is waiting. His wife is a little suppressed woman. She explains that she couldnt sleep because of the heat, but John McLendon doesnt care. He doesnt want her there. He pushes her away and goes into the bedroom, takes a pistol from his hip and lays it on the table. He wipes off the sweat from his body and the dark closes around him.Morten Kristensen1.a01-06-07
