The story "An Error in Chemistry" is written by William Faulkner who was the master of psychological analysis and the works of whom are characterized by the use of implication, stream of consciousness, peculiar graphics, metaphorical language etc.
The plot of the story centers around Joel Flint, a Northerner, who kills his wife and her father - old Wesley Pritchel, who were the inhabitants of the South. After the murder Flint plays the role of the old man and tries to make the profit from it. But his contempt for local traditions becomes his undoing.
I believe the author worked in two directions in this story, that's why I'd like to define the following subject matters:
1) a murderer who tries to evade penalty
2) an outlander in the society
So we come to the following ideas:
- lies have short legs;
- a person is a prisoner, locked up in jail of customs and traditions, and those who are reluctant to live in it, are sure to remain lonely and misunderstood.
At the beginning of the story "An Error in Chemistry" the narrator describes Joel Flint and his opposition to the southerners.
At the sentence "He was the foreigner, the outlander, the Yankee, who had come into our country" the synonymic repetition is contrasted with the personal pronoun to stress the external conflict, which exists between the Southerners and Northerners. The origin of the conflict is in the war between the South and the North, in the reluctance of people to accept representatives of the contrary camp as a part of their society.
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