This story is quite intriguing thus far and I'm very excited to discover how Faulkner is going to keep the story moving in chapter four. I was perplexed at the fascination with the Bear and what it is supposed to represent for us. Maybe our unachievable goals? Maybe "the green light"? Why keep hunting this mysterious, majestic animal if it is supposedly immortal? I feel like the story is about how people drive themselves into the ground attempting to obtain the unobtainable. We always want what we can't have, the grass is greener on the other side sort of thing. It would've been sufficient to just hunt the other animals but no, they had to have Old Ben.
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I have been trying to figure out what Faulkner created the bear to represent as well. That is an interesting perspective - I think I agree with your analysis that they kept working at hunting Old Ben, and would not be satisfied until they killed him.
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