The Great Santini takes its place among the Southern fiction tradition in spotlighting the effects of the South upon its population. The violence teeming beneath a genteel Southern surface reflects the situation in novels such as Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird (1960). The white trash family of the Ewells in that novel parallels the Pettus family in Santini......
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