Chaucer's and Faulkner's Pear Trees: An Arboreal Discussion

Author / Editor
Hays, Peter.

Title
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.