Chaucer's and Faulkner's Pear Trees: An Arboreal Discussion
- Author / Editor
- Hays, Peter.
Chaucer's and Faulkner's Pear Trees: An Arboreal Discussion
- Published
- English Language Notes 38: 57-64, 2001.
- Description
- Chaucer's MerT may have influenced William Faulkner's "The Sound and the Fury." Each work presents the pear tree as a central symbol in a plot focused on greed and deception, one comic and the other tragic. Chaucer's and Faulkner's narratives also share common themes: "inappropriate love relationships," physical and spiritual blindness, and tainted sexuality.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.
- Merchant and His Tale.