Personal Reflection on Dry September by Faulkner “Dry September” by William Faulkner.
Write a personal reflection piece on the short story and find five characteristics, elements, or devices seen in the American Southern Gothic literary tradition. read “Dry September” by William Faulkner. Write a personal reflection piece on the short story and find five characteristics, elements, or devices seen in the American Southern Gothic literary tradition. Be sure to list them with one sentence explaining how it is used, and a quote demonstrating it. “Dry September” by American writer William Faulkner (1897–1962) was first published in Scribner’s magazine in 1931. In the story, a rumor about an unmarried white woman and an African-American man spreads like wildfire through a small Southern town. No one knows what—if anything—really happened between the two, but the assumption is that the man has harmed the woman in some way.
