![]() ![]() ![]() Faulkner was in desperate need of money and might never have considered the project at all had he been economically stable, proving that need sometimes produces greater art than mere want. The result was no mere padding of connective material loosely and unconvincingly attempting to transform barely connected narratives in a coherent whole as so many writers in desperate need of money have done. Go Down, Moses takes the stories told in the novella "The Fire and the Hearth" and the short stories the "Was," "Pantaloon in Black," "The Old People," "The Bear," "Delta Autumn" and "Go Down, Moses" and uses them as the source material ripe for reshaping through revision of what was already in place as well as the addition of new material. Ultimately, this allows the stories to be retold with the intent of deepening the social connotations and political underpinning of all the interconnected characters and events unifying his fictional Mississippi county. The result was a novel that that enhances the history of McCaslin family specifically by splitting their family tree into white and and black branches. Published in 1942, Go Down Moses evolved from connecting a series of previous published short stories by William Faulkner. We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. ![]()
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