published in (1939)A blend of two stories, a love story and a river story, entitled "Wild Palms" and "Old Man". The stories alternate throughout the book; "Wild Palms" focussing on an ill-fated relationship, and "Old Man" in which a "tall convict" battles the great Mississippi River Flood of 1927 to save a pregnant woman from the raging flood waters. The two separate tales of a doomed love affair and the convict's stoic perseverance against devastating natural forces compliment each other in their attitudes towards relationships, destruction and hardship.
Faulkner used the dry palms clashing with the dark wind as metaphor for utter waste, sterility and destruction...............however, it also brings to mind beaches and hands. which are both good.............................
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