A wheel has three main parts, the hub or center of the wheel, the rim of the wheel which acts like a frame and the spokes of the wheel which connect the hub and the rim. William Faulkner’s Light in August was written in a unique structure that is best seen as a wheel or that of a circle.
Joe Christmas’s story is the center of the novel or like the hub of the wheel. The reader get is imagery of the cage more than once in Joe’s part of the novel which can be perceived as Joe being stuck in the middle of the wheel unable to free himself because of the spokes and rim of the wheel. This cage is that of isolation from society. Joe’s life is also presented in that of a circle in which he is constantly traveling and searching for a way to find peace.
Gail Hightower can be seen as the spokes of the wheel because he connects Joe Christmas to Lena Grove. Gail Hightower is the one who delivers Lena’s child in Joe Christmas’s house. Hightower also lives his life isolated from......

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Title: Faulkner’s Wheel Of Three
Approximate Word Count: 392
Approximate Pages: 2 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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