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SUBSTANCE INTO SHADOW I95
was adapted from another problem play whose theme was anti-Semitism. (Similarly Crossfire was adapted from a novel about a homosexual and Anna Lucasta from an original version which dealt with a Polish minority community. The fact that in these problem films Negroes, Jews, Mexicans, homosexuals, and, recently, wounded soldiers are with a few . script modifications interchangeable, throws a somewhat disquieting light on the depth of their intentions.)
Faulkner attempts in his novel a detailed analysis of the complex of emotions, associations, and prejudices which go to make the Southerner's the enlightened but unselfrighteous Southerner's attitude to the Negro. He does so in his characteristic manner by imposing a minute analysis of his characters' reactions to a series of melodramatic situations. The plot of Intruder in the Dust, with its detectivestory-like improbabilities and its theatrical strokes, is kept going by what is essentially a detective writer's device. Lucas, in his account of his whereabouts at the time of the murder, conceals (admittedly for plausible reasons) a clue on which the resolution of the story depends. But this is only one level the less interesting one, perhaps — at which the novel proceeds. The events are seen from the point of view of Chick, a twelve-year-old Southern boy, and Faulkner attempts to explore the total complex of personal, inherited, and intellectually acquired emotions which motivates the boy's action in helping Lucas. Faulkner's belief that the first step towards the solution of the Negro problem lies in the understanding of the Southern white man's attitude (the enlightened Northerner is, to him, a busybodying nuisance) leads him into a microscopic examination of Chick's actions. He tries, as V. S. Pritchett has written, 'to give each instant of experience in depth, to put not only physical life as it is seen directly on the page, but all the historical and imaginative allusions of a culture at the same time'.
Superimposed over these two elements the melodrama