The Reivers Social Sensitivity

This Study Guide consists of approximately 59 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of The Reivers.

The Reivers Social Sensitivity

This Study Guide consists of approximately 59 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of The Reivers.
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The Reivers was a popular novel in part because it tells a wonderfully complicated tall tale to a considerable extent in Faulkner's characteristically difficult style and yet is fairly accessible, very funny, and both risque and wholesome in a sense that American readers tend to like.

Somewhat like Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), this story takes an innocent boy with a sure sense of right and wrong into a wild world of gambling, debauchery, prostitution, horse-racing, political corruption, and rowdiness. His negotiation of these difficulties with his personal sense of honor more or less intact makes for a moral adventure in an immoral world.

At the novel's center is a moral purpose, the passing on of a tradition of moral behavior, of an ideal of the gentleman. As a story of moral education for young people and of coming of age in a complex and...

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