In the story Uncle Willy by William Faulkner, Uncle Willy is a man in the town of Jefferson. People gossip about him behind his back and they think he is crazy. He has a drug addiction that everybody knows about. Uncle Willy gets sick and disappears with Job, another subject of the town’s gossip. When he comes back, he dies.
Do I blame him for this? Maybe not because it can’t be comfortable to be made fun of and be spoken about behind their backs. But I think that he should have at least tried to reach out to people, show them another side of him, and maybe they would start to accept that. There are already people that care about Uncle Willy so if they can, then others can too.
Uncle Willy is trying to escape the society of Jefferson by disappearing and later dying. What he probably doesn’t realize is that there are still people that care about him. In the end, Uncle Willy dies after quite an adventure with the people of Jefferson.