Hightower's Apotheosis in Light in August. From: The Mississippi Quarterly | Date: June 22, 1996| Author: | COPYRIGHT 1996 Mississippi State University. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information) Copyright information

The author examines motivations of the main character of author William Faulkner's novel Light In August. Topics include redemption, religion, and story structure.

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 ...

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