Light In August Planning Page

This artifact is a planning page written before an in-class essay assignment on 20th century novels. The planning page focuses on the importance of gender roles in Faulkner's "Light In August".
The submitter provided the following about the artifact’s history:
This is an essay planning page that I did right before an in-class essay I had to do for 20th Century Novels. She surprised the class by sending out the prompt an hour before class so I was rushing to get all my thoughts and quotations in order before going into class. It helped a lot and I got an A- on the paper.

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Light In August Planning Page
How does Faulkner's Light In August both undermine and reinforce traditional gender and racial roles?
Gender <underlined>: Female traditional roles include being weak and subordinate to men, not having an opinion, not straying from home alone.
have to fall into the good or bad role. pg. 66
Reinforces: Mrs. McEachern - (follows husband's will, but also disobeys him by feeding/giving money to Joe), she also fulfills the caring, motherly stereotype.
"as if she were the medium and the..." pg. 148
Undermines>: Miss Burden - Refused to get married and fulfill that expectation of her, pg 46 sexually liberal, had strong opinions about the equality of black people which made her an outcast
Lena (Both reinforces + undermines)
pg 25 She reinforces it by being the naïve girl who believes the guy who knocked her up actually cares for her and wants to be a part of the family. She undermines it by traveling far away from home on her own and manipulating sympathy help from people
"How did your folks come to let you..." pg 28
Male role: traditionally hyper masculine, agressive, player, misogynistic, lack of emotional response.

The author includes star symbols to identify main points on the planning sheet. An arrow is drawn to indicate the page number connecting to a summary of Lena's character.

04/28/18