“Dry September” by William Faulkner

William Faulkner was born on September 25, 1897, in North Albany, Mississippi. He was Nobel Prize winner in 1950 for literature and one of the colossal grey writers who narrated the traditions and chauvinism of his own regional culture to describe his novels and scam stories. The characters in his work are memorable forever. dry September is a short romance, written by him in 1931, composed in five parts. Dry September, is dealt about the life of white womans unconvinced reprove of abuse against a black man and the prejudiced reaction of the townsmen.The allegory is about the events connected the bump off of Will Mayes but the actual events of murder is not well mentioned to divert the attention of a reader towards the causes of personnel psychologically as well as physical torture. George Marion ODonnell calls Faulkner a really traditional moralist, in the best sense . In this story Minnie make was neglected by the companionship and her feelings about her womanhood touche d her psychologically, rather than the murder of Will Mayes.Faulkner mentioned the words like lifeless, short-winded, and dry to symbolize the neglected value of Miss Minnies in society because her sexual life is considered as dead. Faulkner narrates the view of Minnies motive so dirty to the character of Will Mayes. In Dry September the townspeople, particularly Minnie Cooper and McLendon, give such importance to Will Mayess race than the part of his moral character. This failure to understanding by other man beings was one of the major events connected to the death of Will Mayes.Miss Minnie Cooper was psychologically hurt by the society and finds it difficult to accept herself that what the society thinks about her. Ferguson asserts that Faulkners greatest storiesDry September among them always deal with this fundamental human truth . When her friends children call her aunty she objects and likes to being called as cousin. She wants to change their impression of her and she w ants to be liked by them. As like Will Mayes was murdered in spite of his innocence, Minnie is disgraced from the society even though she did not make any mistake.Volpe says, the characters in Faulkners southern society are drawn from three social levels the aristocrats, the townspeople, and the Negroes . Early southern society was well known for the great importance of womans purity. An unmarried woman was supposed as pure. In this story, Faulkner narrated the billet of Miss Minnie Cooper in Dry September as a spinster. This story is a devasting critique of the southern stories that dealt with the lives of women. The story presents Faulkners analysis of social supremacy based on gender.Narrating the southern society this story is a mixture of past and present events to portray the motivation of characters. Hence it remained as a critique of southern society. References Ferguson, James. Faulkners Short Fiction. Knoxville University of Tennessee Press, 1991. ODonnell, George Marion . Faulkners Mythology. Faulkner 4 Decades of Critcism. Ed. Linda Welshimer Wagner. Michigan State University Press, 1973. Volpe, Edmond. A Readers Guide to William Faulkner. New York Octagon, 1974.