This part of the novel tells of Lucas’ determination to stop the activity that George Wilkins is taking part in and ultimately eliminate him as someone who he is competing with and as a part of his life. Both of them are tenants under Roth Edmonds, and while this story seems to be one of Lucas searching for the unknown it seems to be an extended flashback in his struggles with Zack who is Roth’s father and who was McCaslin’s son. Lucas is seen to be greedy in this novel, which is also connected to his grandson. Lucas is constantly searching for this gold because he does not want to lose his wife named Molly. Lucas thinks he is in complete control of himself but that is not the case. The scene that seems to be the most important in this section of the novel is the confrontation between Zack and Lucas. …show more content…
During the book it is not certain or shown that Zack has had any relations with Molly what so ever, but I think Lucas just feels like he needs to try and take some sort of control over the situation. He has to try and show that he is manly and that he has some sort of power, even though all of his thoughts are just assumptions and it would have been more like a man to handle it the proper way by confronting the situation by asking first instead of just making false accusations. Faulkner writes, “…to the sheriff Lucas was just another nigger and both the sheriff and Lucas knew it, although only one of them knew that to Lucas the sheriff was a redneck without any reason for pride in his forebears nor hope for it in his descendants.” This quote shows Lucas’ feelings towards white people and how the feelings of whites to blacks and blacks to white were both negative. This correlates to Lucas’ drive to kill Zack regardless of his lack of knowledge of the situation at hand. Lucas feels some need to fight him even though at first Zack falls back and doesn’t want anything to do with the