“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 great southern writers who narrated the traditions and flag waving of his own regional culture to describe his novels and short stories. The characters in his work are memorable forever. teetotal September is a short story, written by him in 1931, composed in five parts. dry out September, is plugt about the life of white chars unconvinced blame of abuse against a opprobrious man and the prejudiced reaction of the townsmen.The story is about the blushts connected the murder of Will Mayes but the unquestionable events of murder is not well mentioned to divert the attention of a reader towards the causes of violence psychologically as well as physical torture. George Marion ODonnell calls Faulkner a really traditional moralist, in the best perceive . In this story Minnie Cooper was neglected by the alliance and her feelings about her wo manhood affected her psychologically, alternatively than the murder of Will Mayes.Faulkner mentioned the words like lifeless, breathless, and dry to symbolize the neglected order of Miss Minnies in society because her sexual life is considered as dead. Faulkner narrates the view of Minnies motive so unsportsmanlike to the character of Will Mayes. In Dry September the townspeople, particularly Minnie Cooper and McLendon, give such grandness to Will Mayess race than the quality of his moral character. This failure to understanding by other humans beings was one of the major events connected to the death of Will Mayes.Miss Minnie Cooper was psychologically tortured 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 ch ange their impression of her and she wants to be wish by them. As like Will Mayes was murdered in spite of his innocence, Minnie is disgraced from the society even though she did not made any mistake.Volpe says, the characters in Faulkners southern society are drawn from leash 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 role 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 societal supremacy establish on gender.Narrating the southern society this story is a mixture of past and present events to portray the pauperism of characters. Hence it remained as a critique of southern society. References Ferguson, James. Faulkners Short Fiction. Knoxville University of Tennes see 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.