Hightower's Apotheosis in Light in August.

The Mississippi Quarterly | June 22, 1996| | Copyright

THE FINAL PAGES OF LIGHT IN AUGUST ARE DOMINATED BY Hightower's experience, and that experience culminates in a scene of visionary revelation that has never really been adequately accounted for in the larger context of the novel.(1) Sitting in his window-seat at dusk, as he has every evening throughout the novel, Hightower undergoes a kind of apotheosis. On the one hand, this scene seems to be merely a more explicit recounting of the same experience of his grandfather's spirit to which he succumbs every evening. The clear consensus among critics is that Hightower's final ...

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