What has happened here? The men, women, and children arrive to The men and women and children entering another world, traversingĪnother land, moving in another time, another afternoon without time or The weathered and creaking wagons, the plow-galled horses and mules, Participate in this transformation of their landscape: Tenant farmers of Frenchman's Bend gather to witness and to Not only has the land increased in value, but inįaulkner's description it has actually become someplace else. People from all overįrenchman's Bend gather, in the final pages of The Hamlet, to haveĪ look at this once worthless but now high-priced piece of land for Speculators, Ratliff, Bookwright, and Armstid. Snopes as Eula's dowry, and finally sold to the three foolish Sell to nobody."(1) By the end of the novel, however, Varner's "This is the only thing I ever bought in my life I couldn't
Sitting in a make-shiftĬhair and overlooking the valueless property, Varner laments to Ratliff, Property as "my one mistake." The land represents a strategicĮrror because Varner cannot sell it to anyone. "the present owner of the Old Frenchman place," refers to the At the beginning of the novel, Will Varner, identified as Transfer of ownership of the Old Frenchman place from Varner to SnopesĪnd then to the investment partnership of Ratliff, Bookwright, andĪrmstid.
#BOOKWRIGHT PROBLEMS SERIES#
Retrieved from Ī series of land transactions regarding a single piece of propertyĮffectively structures The Hamlet along a real-estate continuum: the
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