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...though nobody is sure by whom. Varner marries her off to Flem Snopes, who advances from shortest-order cook to bank vice president, then moves up several more rungs of Jefferson's social ladder when he permits "Major" De Spain to cuckold him with Eula. His motives are Snopesean and Faulknerian: through a kind of sexual osmosis, he hopes that the Snopes family tree will flourish by association with the aristocratic De Spain. The gentle, white-haired local lawyer, Gavin Stevens (left over from Intruder in the Dust, etc.), loves Eula's adolescent daughter Linda; he wants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Snopeses | 5/6/1957 | See Source »

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