Shingles for the Lord

Shingles for the Lord

"Shingles for the Lord" is a short story written by the American author William Faulkner, first published in the Saturday Evening Post in 1943 [ [http://www.mcsr.olemiss.edu/~egjbp/faulkner/r_ss_shinglesforthelord.html WFotW ~ "Shingles for the Lord": COMMENTARY & RESOURCES ] ] . The story takes place in Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County focusing on Res Grier, a struggling farmer, as he joins his neighbors in roofing the old church house and is narrated by his son in colloquial language. The story is on the surface a comic diversion, developing a plot similar to that of a situation comedy in which the attempt of one character to outsmart the others leads him to a sort of banishment or ostracism from which he must recuperate himself in order to reclaim his place in the community.

External links

* [http://www6.semo.edu/cfs/teaching_faulkner.htm Semo´s page on the book]
* [http://www.mcsr.olemiss.edu/%7Eegjbp/faulkner/faulkner.html Mcsr´s page on the book]

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