Talk:That Evening Sun

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There is an irony in the title of "An Evening Sun." the blues song Faulkner quotes is "I Hate to See that Evenin' Sun go down,"(repeated twice), and then the final line: ""Cause when it does, my baby's not aroun.'" Nancy's terror derives from her belief that one of these nights "her baby" is going to be around--out there in the dark, waiting for her with a knife.

Quentin Compson didn't live to be twenty-four. He only lived to be 21, I think, as he went off to Harvard in 1908 when he was 20, and he committed suicide in the spring of 1909 (I don't remember when exactly his birthday was, so he could have been 20 or 21.)

He killed himself on June 2, 1910. so if he's 9 in this story, it means it's set in 1899 or 1900.