believe that the Stupen experience embodied the sense of defeat that most southerners felt after the war. The basic ideals and spirit of southern life was destroyed by the war and never to be fully restored again. Their lives were turned upside down by the war and afterwards they did not even have the solace of their previous social status to return to. During the war many people were faced with unthinkable hardships on every …showed first 75 words of 1045 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1045 total…scussed the stories of Jefferson and the Stupens, Quentin was faced with the realization of his love hate relationship with the south. He realized that he did not hate the south that he had grown up in. I believe that the new south still to this day tries to reestablish some of the ideals of the old south as evident by the romanticism that a lot of southerners have in regard to pre war history.