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believe that the Stupen experience embodied the sense of defeat that most southerners felt after the war. The basic ideals and spirit of southern life was destroyed by the war and never to be fully restored again. Their lives were turned upside down by the war and afterwards they did not even have the solace of their previous social status to return to. During the war many people were faced with unthinkable hardships on every level.

The myth of the helpless southern woman was replaced by the image of an undying strong will to provide for and take care of her southern men. The women of high social standing were reduced to making their clothes out of used material instead of buying new fabrics and dresses, as they were accustomed to. Judith was even thought of as stealing the scraps of material that she used to make her wedding dress. Mrs. Rosa, Judith, and Clytemnestra all aged greatly during the war, they were forced to learn how to care for themselves completely with no help from a man to speak of. This quick aging left permanent scars on southern women I believe, before the war they were more childlike and helpless, dependent on their southern men. The war gave forced independence for the most part. Even after the war was o

The problems that faced southern men were similar but different. The men of the south were forced to take up arms to protect their way of life. All the while their women were changing, their property being destroyed and their way of life demolished. Their entire legacies were destroyed in a brief time in history. Theses men such as Stupen left for the war leaving behind flourishing plantations such as Stupen’s Hundred and returned as Stupen did only able to cultivate Stupen’s mile. This was a devastating realization to come home to. Theses men had been defeated on the battlefield subjected to inhumane conditions such as no shoes and returned home to nothing but the spoils of war. Stupen came home to find his household in ruin but had an optimistic outlook on reinstating his home to its pervious glory but was soon defeated in that endeavor also. He was looked upon by Judith, Clytie, and Rosa as a sign of hope and a savior of sorts but was unable to fill theses shoes. He tried to begin farming again but was unable to cultivate the land due to many factors mostly economical. The role of the planters had drastically changed, he was no longer the wealthy overseers he was now the hands in the dirt. Those hands already plagued with old tools and lack of supplies led to extremely hard work. Stupen thought a partial solution to re-establishing his legacy would be to gain a new male heir in light of the fact hat Henry was gone in exile, and Bon was dead. Stupen unfortunately failed in this endeavor also. He was even reduced to think

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Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)

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