The Inscrutable Urges of Squirrels.

This article comments on some important scenes in the book "The Bear," by William Faulkner. The novelist presents the closing scene with some of the most energetic and enigmatic descriptions in all of his fiction. Critics have interpreted the scene in the context of the book as a whole and in relation to the larger concerns of Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County mythology. The author is more drawn to the squirrel sequence that to a thematic perspective on the fall of the Old South and the loss of the wilderness.