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…showed last 75 words of 1578 total…too proud to accept the defeat and kept leading their lives trying to ignore the disturbing reality. By telling us the gruesome murder of an innocent and defenseless black man, Faulkner severely criticizes the narrow-minded, biased, hypocritical, and unscrupulous mentality of the Southern society, a society based on appearance rather than truth, and causes us to reflect on many issues that have affected our society throughout the centuries, and may continue to affect us always.