wn as the “King of Real Estate.” The mother is so frustrated with her life that she tries to put on false impressions for the outside world. When she goes to her business gatherings she tells her husband that he has to act a certain way that is far beyond his actually personality. When Lester disobeys, she gets very upset and ridicules him on all of his mistakes that he did. The mother also tries to develop this fake relationship with her daughter, which drives this teenager crazy. Her daughter realizes that it is all fake and begridges the fact that her mother thinks that she can buy her love and affection with material things. The mother finally falls apart when she starts to have an affair with Buddy Kane and realizes that her life is not as perfect as she wants it to be. She thinks about committing suicide, but never goes through with it but she plans the acts.False impressions also come into view in the novel, The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner. The novel is about a family that lived in the early 1900’s. The family had a wonderful house with a helper, lots of land and a great big family to share it all with. Within this family lived their mentally retarded son, Benjy, who tells part of the story on his thirty-third birthday. Benjy presents his family as being very cruel to him. The novel shows how the family is no good when the family’s helper husband says, “They ain’t no luck on this place.’ Roskus said.’I seen it at first but when they changed his name I knowed it.’”(29). The reason why the family changed Benjy’s name was that they thought that it was an insult to his uncle Maury. He was originally named after him, but when they realized that he was retarded they changed his name. The family also shows to be cruel when the put on this image of having everything and all they know how to do is to be cruel to Benjy because he is retarded. The ...
