Babies Make Everything Better: Subverted despite Lena's undying hope.And Now for Someone Completely Different: Near the end of the novel, the narrative focus suddenly shifts to Percy Grimm, who has been of no significance to the story up to that point (but who will soon become very significant).He has somewhat dark features, and although he can sometimes pass for white, he knows or suspects that he has non-white ancestry, probably black and/or indigenous Mexican. McEachern is something of an enabler, causing Joe to hate her even more than Mr. McEachern is abusive towards Joe and Mrs. Her story intersects with, and is then subsumed by, that of Joe Christmas, a biracial white-passing man whose fanatical religious upbringing and inability to square his mixed-race heritage with his life experiences sets him on a path toward inevitable tragedy. The story begins when Lena Grove, a young pregnant woman from Alabama, arrives in Jefferson, Mississippi (a recurrent Faulkner setting) searching for the father of her child. Light in August (1932) is a novel by William Faulkner that examines race, class, and religion in 1930s Mississippi.
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