"Shingles for the Lord" is a short story written by the American author

William Faulkner William Cuthbert Faulkner (; September 25, 1897 – July 6, 1962) was an American writer known for his novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, based on Lafayette County, Mississippi, where Faulkner spent most of ...

, first published in '' The Saturday Evening Post'' in 1943.">WFotW ~ "Shingles for the Lord": COMMENTARY & RESOURCES
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Yoknapatawpha County Yoknapatawpha County () is a fictional Mississippi county created by the American author William Faulkner, largely based upon and inspired by Lafayette County, Mississippi, and its county seat of Oxford (which Faulkner renamed "Jefferson"). Faulk ...

focusing on Res Grier, a struggling farmer, as he joins his neighbors in roofing the old church house and is narrated by his son in

colloquial Colloquialism (), also called colloquial language, everyday language or general parlance, is the linguistic style used for casual (informal) communication. It is the most common functional style of speech, the idiom normally employed in conver ...

language. The story is on the surface a comic diversion, developing a plot similar to that of a situation comedy in which the attempt of one character to outsmart the others leads him to a sort of banishment or ostracism from which he must recuperate himself in order to reclaim his place in the community.

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Semo´s page on the book
1943 short stories Short stories by William Faulkner Works originally published in The Saturday Evening Post Mississippi in fiction {{1940s-story-stub