Uncle Willy by William Faulkner is about a young kid who runs away with a crazy old man that everyone calls Uncle Willy. Uncle Willy is a drug addicted eccentric man who is popular with the kids since they think he’s cool. The church tries to keep him off of drugs so he runs away with a kid and ends up dying in a plane crash. The young boy who runs away feels very betrayed by Uncle Willy’s assistant Job who calls their old town to come where they are and when Uncle Willy runs away he crashes the plane and dies.
Willy isn’t sad about the death of Uncle Willy, he feels betrayed by Job and how no one understands why he liked and looked up to Uncle Willy. He cries while they were going home not because Uncle Willy died but because someone in their group betrayed them and how now no one will understand why everyone looked up to him. He thought that he was a fun loving man whose ideals, which were doing whatever was fun, made it so that he didn’t fear death which made it seem like he couldn’t die.
Willy feels super betrayed by Job since he seemed very loyal working for Willy for such a long time. From Jobs perspective he was trying to save Uncle Willy’s life, Uncle Willy was in danger but in the kids eyes he didn’t care about death, he only cared about having fun. So the death part didn’t bother anyone except Job.
In conclusion all the kids look up to him since he is so carefree and looks looks he has a fun life when in reality his life is ruined and he doesn’t realize it yet. He does’t fear death and only cares about having fun in life which is proved when he runs away and does drugs.