Faunia Farley – The Human Stain

any musical modes Coleman Silk, the major character of The Human Stain. By my have got opinion, the most raise charatcer too. She started off as a rich privileged kid who, at the age of 14, had been struck by the worst tenuousg that can draw to a girl at the very edge of her puberty having a spoiled mformer(a) who cared more ab give out-of-door the money than for her own daughetr, Faunia had to casing an abusing stepfather who found her chilish innocence and beauty too powerful sexual control to checkure. Running a mien at such early and immature years of her manners and staying completely alone and protected exclusively by work sky and an empty wallet, she had been forced to put up with the worst smorgasbord of vocations and worst kind of custody that could possibly be found.In her case, these jobs and work force seemed to find her more quickly than she found anything else herself. Waitressing in Florida, a 17-year obsolete Faunia is even entailing active becomin g a prostitute for a skinny blonde with big tits, a tall, good- notion kid uniform her with hustle and ambition and guts, got up in miniskirt, a halter, and boots, a 1000 bucks a night would be nothing (p. 160). After a serial publication of not-nice boyfriend who beat her up until she screamed for her life, she finnaly cought up with a neatlylooking guy, this Lester Farley, who seemed to be a guy in his place.She even dared to think her miseries were over and dream about a peaceful life with her husband and a farm on which they could build a life toghether. She was wrong. Les Farley had turned out to be the next worst thing that happened a Vietnam vet with posttraumatic stress disorder and a drinking problem, used her as his punching bag whenever he got inebriate and mistakenly thought he was back in Nam and that she was one of the gooks from the jungle. withal often was she awakened by his cold hands firmly fascinating her throat (p. 53). save she didnt hate him, she wasnt even too scared of him, she matte sorry for him more than anything. In one of his hard alchohol episodes, she managed to get him to rehab, took their two children, Rawley and Les Junior, and more for theirs sake than her owns, she escaped him. But the problems didnt stop. Getting out of the rehab, Les started to broth her. One night, while she had been with another man in a car, the theatre of operations where kids slepti was caught in fire and both of them died. Even though there was no evidence of it, she knew it was Les who did it. But it didnt matter.Childrens end haunted her and she blamed herself so gratingly that she even wanted Les to kill her once and for all (p. 246. ). But unspeakable how nobodys done it til now to the dead childrens mother she thinks and decides to do something about it herself. She drank Valiu and cotton gin and suffered a clinical death for several minutes, but some fortune, or misfortune, wouldnt let her go (p. 245).Disappointed in everyth ing about herself and determined to end her miseries, she buys carbon-monoxide powder and attepmpts a suicide once again. And once again, her luck slapped her in the salute and kept her alive (p. 246. . OK, if this is how you wanna play, thats how were gonna play, Faunia says to some force greater and stronger than human will that played tricks on her her entire life. Accepting everything that had happened and everything that was yet to come, she continues her life with a special kind of wisdom narrow, antisocial, savage and negative, but a wisdom of somebody who expects nothing (p. 28). Starting to work on a milk farm, in a post office and as a janitor at genus Athene colledge, she puts a masquerade over her face and continues to get involved with wrong men in wrong kinds of relationships establish mainly on sex.And exactly sex is her power over men. This 34-year-old thin and tall illiterate woman with graying blond hair, firm limbs and breasts, had a look of someone for whom bo th sex and betrayal are as canonic as bread (p. 50. ). In bed she is powerful, coherent, unified worldness whose pleasure is in overstepping the boundaries. In bed she is a deep phenomenon (p. 31). After being a part of Smoky Hollenbacks sexual triangle, she starts an affair with a 71-year-old Coleman Silk, ex-dean of Athena colledge.He is different from all the other guys that she ever had a bounteous luck to know, but nonetheless all she wants of him is a non-pressure bang, once a week, on the sly, with a man whos been with it all and is nicely cooled out. (p. 40). She plays her role, she satisfies him comparable no other woman ever forwards, sho doesnt want anything else from him, no expectations, no feelings, no true relationship, shes becoming his Voluptas. And when she knows its happening that thing, that connection between them, when she dances for him and fashioning him fall in love with her she says to him Weve got all we need.We dont need love. Dont diminish your self dont hear yourself as a sentimental sap. Youre dying to do it, but dont. Lets not lose this. (p. 231). She knows shes driving him nuts, she knows that her rejection of his feelings makes him want to attach to her sentimentaly even more. She dances for him and teaches him what life in reality is. She a 34-year-old illiterate janitor, teaches him colledge proffessor, ex-dean, a member of highest rank of society class, what life is all about. Hes never seen her dance like this, hes never heard her talk of the town like this.Been so long since she talked like this, shed have thought shed forgotten how. So very long in hiding. Nobody heard her public lecture like this. This is not the usual way she entertained men (p. 231. /232). Women who deal like she does arent supposed to talk like this at least thats what the men who dont fuck women like her like to think. Thats what the women who dont fuck like her like to think. Thats what everyone likes to think stupid Faunia, she says. Well, let em. My pleasure. Yes, stupid Faunia has been paying attention. How else does stupid Faunia get through?Being stupid Faunia thats my achievement, thats me at my most sensible best. (p. 233. ) Two of them being so similar and yet so different at the same(p) time. Faunia, who never had anything only hers except bad luck and still never complaining about anything, never shed a single raid over the wreck of her life she is still in a way forced to live and Coleman who really thinks his suffering is so life-shattering. Its a smoke of assholes not liking him its not a big deal. Two kids kill and dying, thats a big deal. Having your stepfather put his fingers up your cunt, thats a big deal.Losing your job as youre about to retire isnt a big deal. Thats what she hates about him the privilegedness of his suffering. (p. 234. ). But even as she knows all she hates, she knows what she likes. His generosity. So rare for her to be anywhere near anyones generosity. And the strenght that comes frome being a man who doesnt swing a subway at her head. She even admitted him she was smart. He listened to her and she was smart. He listens to her and hes loyal to her. He doesnt wrong her for anything. He doesnt plot against her in any way.He takes her seriously. Thats sincere. (p. 237. ). This is maybe the only time in all her life she felt good about something, about someone. Felt protected. Felt considered. mayhap even felt loved. Maybe even she felt love towards him. And are these the things you can run away from? A total accident her last and only lucky accident, and why does she run away? Does she really want to go back to what it was before him? (p. 237. ). No, she doesnt. So she doesnt do that. Shes with him till the very end. Death came in a moment when she never wanted it less.In all her life, filled in general with thoughts about leaving the world, the human flow, and all the mseries behid, she never wanted death less. So who is this strong a nd determined woman? This woman who despiesed human race so much that her best companion for conversation had been a jubilate and she could be true only to it? This character so complex in all her simplicity? This woman who fooled the world and played the trick on everyone like no one else in such an unexpected way so simple that its almost unbelievable? Who chose to wear a mask of illiteracy and promiscuicity becouse she felt she couldnt stand a chance any other way?Shes the kid whose existence became a hallucination at 7 and a catastrophe at 14 and a disaster after(prenominal) that. The kid who mistrust everyone, sees the con in everyone, and yet is protected against nothing, whose force to hold on, unintimidated, is enormous and yet whose purchase on life is minute, misfortunes front-runner embattled child, the kid to whom everything loathsome that can happen has happened and whose luck shows no sign of changing. (p. 164. ). Shes the woman who doesnt want to own everything. The woman who doesnt want to own anything. Helen of Nowhere. Helen of Nothing.