When analyzing William Faulkner's character Lena Grove from Light In August, it is necessary to consider most American literature, where it is common to end a book with a single sentence that has a profound and lasting effect on the reader. It is also common, for that single sentence to have some connection with the beginning of the book, that either answers a question which the book may have put out, or somehow sums up the many events that have taken place. This is why Light in August is strange in both its context and the way it begins and ends. Faulker's book starts out with Lena Grove, a pregnant, well-mannered traveler, in search of the father of her child, Lucas Burch. Lena Grove, however, is a minor character at the most, whose only significance is her tie to Lucas, only in that she is pregnant with his child. However, Lena is the one character you can relate to; the only one that you may be able to have sympathy for.
The story opens with Lena "sitting beside the road,......

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Title: Miss
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