It’s find the way Warren caught not only the pattern of their acts but the very terms they thought in of that time. ‘…couldn’t bear the eyes watching me.’ That’s all right. But maybe the Cass story made the rest of the book thinner than it is. He was neither big enough nor bad enough. As I read him, he wanted neither power for the sake of his pride nor revenge for the sake of his vanity he wanted neither to purify the early by obliterating some of the population from it nor did he aim to give every hillbilly and redneck a pair of shoes. I didn’t mind neither loving him nor hating him, but I did object to not being moved to pity. The others couldn’t be bigger than he, the hero, and he to me is second rate. The Starke thing is good solid sound writing but for my money Starke and the rest of them are second rate. The Cass Mastern story is a beautiful and moving piece. In a letter dated 25 July, 1950, Faulkner tells Warren’s agent: Unlike most reviewers, William Faulkner was less-than-enthusiastic about All the King’s Men.
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