Big Bottom in "The Bear" (Location)
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Location Key:
Display Label:
The Wilderness
Map Icon:
Event
Other Texts Location Appears In:
X:
820
Y:
218
Description:
The wilderness is an area of old-growth forest south of the Tallahatchie River in the north-west part of Yoknapatawpha. In the opening of “The Bear,” Faulkner describes the site as “thirty miles” (290) of hunting ground within “an area almost a hundred miles deep” (281). In his depiction of this setting as a “doomed wilderness whose edges were being constantly and punily gnawed at by men with axes and plows” (281-2), Faulkner presents a critique of the plantation and sharecropping systems.
Role:
Site of Event
Status:
Continuous
Types:
Woods|Wilderness; Hunting Grounds
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