Predatory Men in William Faulkner’s Novel, Sanctuary Essay -- Faulkner

Ruthless Men in William Faulkner’s Novel, Sanctuary William Faulkner’s tale, Sanctuary, is packed with nuance and imagery. In transit to Old Frenchman’s Place, Temple Drake considers baseball players in the Saturday game she is absent as â€Å"crouching, articulating short, crying cries like swamp fowl upset by a gator, not sure of where the peril is, unmoving, poised† (37). In making such a picture of predation, Faulkner readies the peruser for Temple’s landing in Old Frenchman’s Place â€the prey/predator representation loaning itself impeccably to Temple’s circumstance vis-à -vis the men there. All through the novel, Faulkner depicts Temple as catlike or creature like. At the point when she articles to Gowan Stevens heading to Lee Goodwin’s looking for liquor, he advises her, â€Å"Don’t get your back up, now† (37); and she is continually springing here and there and ripping at entryways or covers, as though she were a light-footed and nervous feline. When Goodwin discovers her hunching toward the edge of his kitchen he lifts her â€Å"by the scruff of the neck, similar to a kitten† (52), and Popeye correspondingly holds her b...