Ch 2: "Strawberry Wine" -Deana Carter

"Strawberry Wine" -Deana Carter 

To me "Strawberry Wine" by Deana Carter  illustrates the scene where Dewey Dell and Lafe have sex for the first time. The song perfectly illustrates a seventeen year old girl falling in love for the first time and how it was bittersweet and beautiful:

Like strawberry wine and seventeen

The hot July moon saw everything

My first taste of love oh bittersweet

Green on the vine

Like strawberry wine

Not only does the song illustrate a scene that probably was completely different but in a later section we even find out that Dewey Dell is seventeen when she is in the drug store trying to buy medicine (200). Even though Faulkner does not describe Dewey Dell and Lafe's love scene as full of beauty as Carter does the song still illustrates how every girl must feel after their first time.

Because I said will I or wont I when the sack was half full because I said if the sack will not be full and I will turn up the next row but if the sack is full, I cannot help it. . . And we picked on toward the secret shade and our eyes would drown together touching on his hands and my hands and I didn't say anything. . . And so it was full when we came to the end of the row and I could not help it. (27). 

I'm sure Dewey Dell thought the moment was perfect until she found out the repercussions later. This song symbolizes her full naivete in the world of love and men.