Bring on the tough stuff - there’s not just one right answer.
- How do we first learn that Lucius is telling his childhood adventure story from the vantage point of an adult?
- What is it about the automobile that captivates the people of Jefferson? Angers them? What fascinates Boon?
- What roles do innocence and corruption play in Faulkner's descriptions of the different people Lucius meets outside of Jefferson?
- How are women characterized in the novel? Would the story have been different if Lucius had been an eleven-year-old girl?
- Faulkner once wrote that Yoknapatawpha County was his "own little postage stamp of native soil [worth] writing about." How does Yoknapatawpha County feature in The Reivers?