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“plot” in Old Man by William Faulkner

Posted by Lew Weinstein on February 1, 2009

the central action of the story introduced by an innocuous question …

“can you fellows paddle a boat?”

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* “beginning” in Old Man by William Faulkner

Posted by Lew Weinstein on February 1, 2009

Faulkner takes 4-5 pages to introduce two convicts who are never named; only then does the story begin …

“It was this second convict who, toward the end of April, began to read aloud to the others from the daily newspapers”

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