"Epilogue" -Les Miserables
One song that I have already thought of is from the end scene of Les Miserables when the character Cosette is about to lose her father. She sings:
You will live,
Papa you're going to live!
It's too soon, too soon to say goodbye
These lyrics are almost identical to what Dewey Dell says when Addie just dies; "It is because in the wild and outraged earth too soon too soon too soon. It's not that I wouldn't and will not it's that it is too soon too soon too soon." (120). The beauty is that in both scenes from either book, or movie, depicts the daughter crying over the loss of a parent. This is Dewey Dell’s only moment of grieving that Faulkner gives us and at first it does not seem like she cares at all, but once looked at with Les Miserables as a backdrop one can argue that Dewey Dell cared a lot for her mother.
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