Popeye (Faulkner character)

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Popeye is a character in William Faulkner's 1931 novel Sanctuary. He is a Memphis, Tennessee-based criminal who rapes Temple Drake and introduces her into a criminal world which corrupts her.

Popeye is

unable to sexually perform.[1] Owing to this aspect of his body, in the original novel, Popeye instead uses a corncob to violate her. Doreen Fowler, author of "Reading for the "Other Side": Beloved and Requiem for a Nun," wrote that Popeye wished to "despoil and possess the secret dark inner reaches of woman."[2]

Adaptations

In the 1933 film The Story of Temple Drake he is replaced by Trigger, played by Jack La Rue. Trigger is able to sexually perform.[1]

In the 1961 film

Loyola University of Chicago wrote that Candy's "French accent gives him an exotic quality" attracting Temple to him; the film has the character originate in New Orleans to match the change.[5] Candy Man is able to sexually perform, and Phillips stated that when Temple is raped, Candy Man "demonstrates his virility unequivocally".[6] According Degenfelder, the new character name is a reference to his sexual allure and his job illegally transporting alcohol, as "candy" also referred to alcohol.[7] Phillips stated that the merging of Pete into Candy Man means the film is made "more tightly into a continuous narrative" from the plots of the two original works, and also that the film does not have to make efforts to establish a new character towards the film's end.[8]

Analysis

T. H. Adamowski wrote in Canadian Review of American Studies that usual characterizations of Popeye reflect an ""electric-light-stamped-tin" syndrome".[9] Philip G. Cohen, David Krase, and Karl F. Zender, authors of a section on William Faulkner in Sixteen Modern American Authors, wrote that Adamowski's analysis of Popeye was "philosophically and psychologically sophisticated".[10]

Legacy

Gene D. Phillips of

Loyola University of Chicago wrote that Slim Grisson of No Orchids for Miss Blandish was "modeled after Popeye."[11]

References

  • Adamowski, T. H. (Spring 1977). "Faulkner's Popeye: The "Other" As Self".
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    • This was reprinted in: Bleikasten, André and Nicole Moulinoux (editors). Douze lectures de Sanctuaire. PU de Rennes/Fondation William Faulkner (Rennes, France), 1995. p. 51-66.

Notes

  1. ^
    JSTOR 43795435
    . - Cited: p. 269.
  2. ISBN 1617035297, 9781617035296. Start: p. 139. CITED: p. 142
    .
  3. JSTOR 2712288
    . - Cited: p. 554.
  4. ^ "Sanctuary" (JPG). (from here)
  5. JSTOR 43795435
    . - Cited: p. 271.
  6. ISBN 1572331666, 9781572331662. p. 81
    .
  7. ISBN 1572331666, 9781572331662. p. 80
    .
  8. ISBN 1572331666, 9781572331662. p. 82-83
    .
  9. ^ Adamowski, page unknown.
  10. ^ Cohen, Philip G., David Krause, and Karl F. Zender. "William Faulkner." In: Sixteen Modern American Authors Volume 2. Duke University Press, 1990. Start: p. 210. CITED: p. 276-275.
  11. JSTOR 43795435
    . - Cited: p. 273.

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