That Evening Sun Themes
Race
In "That Evening Sun," Quentin's hometown of Jefferson is shown as being super divided by race, which is something Quentin gradually becomes conscious of. After all, he grows up within this racial...
Fear
Boo! Fear plays several roles in "That Evening Sun." First, it gives us some good ol' fashioned suspense and fright as we read, making the story more suspenseful than a Hitchcock movie.Second, fear...
Memory and The Past
Memento—er, "That Evening Sun"—shows us the tricky nature of memory. People tend to remember the past the way they want to, or the way they need to. (You know how it's always someone else's fau...
Versions of Reality
Reality in "That Evening Sun" is not a clear-cut matter… but it never is. How many realities are coexisting in this short story? Let's count.There's the reality of the white residents of Jefferso...
Guilt and Blame
"That Evening Sun" gives us the racially divided town of Jefferson, where the powerful white people seem free to blame others, and the less powerful black people (personified by the tragic characte...