Hunting in the Garden of Eden

Wow, so from a rattlesnake and a tree full of squirrels, we get an allusion to the Garden of Eden. Pretty cool! I got to give you that one Faulkner. That was awesome! My wish is that he would of forgotten some of the genealogy and continued the hunting story! I am not a hunter, on the contrary, I sidestep to avoid ants. But, I did enjoy the hunting story! It was amazing how he linked the bear to Sam and his Indian heritage! Now, in this story, I found progress, the death of the past (Old South, slavery, etc), but I wasn't left with a broken family. An upset Boon, yes, an Ike and Major de Spain saddened by the loss of the wilderness and the old ways, yes. But, (and I know you are not supposed to start a sentence with "but", but we are discussing Faulkner, who very rarely obeyed grammatical rules) I had hope that the progress would eradicate the wrongs of history. I also liked the idea that we are still part of the earth when we die, i.e. the idea that Sam knew Ike was there in the forest. All in all, I enjoyed this better than Santuary!