![]() ![]() The emphasis on washing both in the first and last sections unifies the story. ![]() Sometimes, the husbands of the washing women would fetch and deliver the clothes for their wives, but Jesus, Nancy's husband, would never stoop to this servitude for her. Nancy was one of the women whom the Compson children liked to watch carry laundry on her head because she could balance her bundle while crawling through fences or walking down in ditches and then up out of them. But 15 years earlier, the streets would have been filled with black women carrying bundles of clothes balanced on their heads. There are electric line poles and paved streets even the black women who still take in laundry have their husbands pick it up and deliver it in cars. The opening of "That Evening Sun" emphasizes the differences between the past and the present, much like the opening section of "A Rose for Emily." Quentin is 24 years old, and laundry is now delivered in automobiles. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |