That Evening Sun

For the film, see That Evening Sun (film).

"That Evening Sun" is a short story by the American author William Faulkner, published in 1931 in the collection These 13, which included Faulkner's most anthologized story, "A Rose for Emily". The story was originally published, in a slightly different form, as "That Evening Sun Go Down" in The American Mercury in March of the same year.

"That Evening Sun" paints a stark portrait of the indifference of white Southerners to the deep-seated fears of one of their African American employees, Nancy. Narrated by Quentin Compson, one of Faulkner's most enduring characters, the story explores the reactions of Quentin and his siblings, Caddy and Jason, as they grapple with an adult world they do not fully comprehend. The African American washerwoman, Nancy Mannigoe, lives in fear that her common-law husband, Jesus, intends to kill her because she is carrying a white man's child.

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