The introduction passage to Byron and Lena’s first interaction begins with, “Then Byron fell in love. Byron’s choice of helping a pregnant woman opposes the morals that he was brought up in. Byron becomes more of a social outcast in the Jefferson community after his initial interaction with Lena.īyron goes against social norms for Lena and becomes naive that she will accept him and fall deeply in love. Beard, the owner of a boardinghouse that Byron stays at, judge and condemn Byron for the continuous choices that he makes. As a result, Gail Hightower, a retired minister who was also shunned out by the Jefferson community, and Mrs. By tangling himself into Lena’s situation, Byron goes against the social norms that he was brought up with. Byron, already a social outcast as a result of his self-inflicted isolation and obsessiveness with his work, gets involved with Lena and claims to fall in love with her. In William Faulkner’s Light in August Lena Grove, a woman who is on the search for the father of her unborn child, meets Byron Bunch at a planing mill, mistaking him for her boyfriend.
Unlike today’s society, women during that time period were looked down upon for being pregnant out of wedlock and shunned out of society. One of the key beliefs that were prominent in the South was the “Agrarian Ideal”, in which Americans could successfully thrive on small farms and escape the temptation of the city. Faulkner’s Idea on Social Outcasting in Light in August
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