![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The story is told by two narrators: first, an anonymous, articulate narrator who provides some crucial background information before handing off the telling to Ratliff, who tells in a vernacular style how, in trying to play a practical joke on Luke, he himself becomes the victim of another joke. Faulkner transferred his malady to the story's Luke Provine, a shiftless, quick-to-temper drinker. According to Joseph Blotner, while at the hunting lodge owned by General Jim Stone (father of Faulkner's friend and mentor Phil Stone), Faulkner was "plagued with a familiar ailment, a prolonged bout of hiccups after his continued drinking" that made it difficult for him to eat, drink, or sleep (325). "A Bear Hunt," Faulkner's first published hunting story, is sometimes confused with "The Bear," published a decade later, but no bear and very little hunting appears in "A Bear Hunt." The story is based on a real-life incident Faulkner experienced on a hunting trip near the Tallahatchie River in November, 1933. ![]()
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