著者

佐藤 道子

出版者

昭和女子大学

雑誌

學苑 (ISSN:13480103)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.763, pp.74-83, 2004-04-01

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In my previous article (Gakuen 736, Nov. 2001), the role of Byron Bunch was discussed. He looks like a very ordinary, diligent, rather timid man without a hint of attractive youth, and seems to be just a good-natured man. But the truth is that he plays a very important role in this novel as a man who leads the next generation. In other words, Faulkner suggests that Byron will make a new home with Lena Grove and bring up Lena's and Lucas Burch's baby as a foster father. He is supposed to be a warmhearted and open-minded foster father, who is quite different from Joe Christmas's foster father, Simon McEachern. Unlike McEachern, Byron has no such religious prejudice and so he will never have control over the life of his foster child. In this paper, Byron's role in the work will be discussed further. For this purpose, I will consider the matter of the establishment of ego and self-realization in Byron.