Phillips, KathyChun, Lynn2014-01-152014-01-152014-01-15http://hdl.handle.net/10125/31646In the second section of "The Sound and the Fury", Quentin Compson imagines his father speaking to him: "Women... they have an affinity for evil for supplying whatever the evil lacks in itself for drawing it about them instinctively as you do bed-clothing in slumber fertilising the mind for it until the evil has served its purpose whether it ever existed or no [sic]". In this much quoted line, a surprisingly substantial portion of William Faulkner's critical community has found what they believe to be the author's over attitudes towards women.64 pagesAll UHM Honors Projects are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission from the copyright owner.Ladies, Gentlemen, and Ghosts: Women and the Southern Ideal in Four Novels by William FaulknerTerm Project