Then they would break camp and go home," (217).
When Old Ben was finally taken down, the hunters who had spent so long in pursuing him then had nothing left to contribute to their legend. Their purpose was completed, much like the South's long-gone glory days. Most of those who made up their party had little other talents than to track and hunt. The stray Mastiff, Lion, who "inferred not only courage and all else that went to make up the will and desire to pursue and kill, but endurance, the will and desire to endure beyond all imaginable limits of flesh in order to overtake and slay" (Faulkner 227), would in no way fir into any other environment than the experience of the hunt. The dog was born to chase and kill, not exactly what you would describe as perfect assets to have in a house pet. However, Lion got the luxury of being slain doing what he was the best.
Unlike many of the hunters, the dog along with Sam Fathers, did not have to live to see themselves become obsolete. Rather, they died during the making of their legend, therefore preserving their dignity by not falling into the unknown after their purpose was complete. Sam Fathers, "the old man, the wild man not even one generation from the woods, childless, kinless, peopleless," (236) had met the same fate as Lion. The pair were two wild to turn face and live in a civilized world once the hunt was over. Faulkner needed these two to die to further his point in the end of an era. They both resembled Old Men in many ways, and with the dying of all three, there was no hope for their traditions to continue.
For those characters who were not so lucky to meet their end during the hunt succumbed to their increasing insignificance. The members of the hunting party who survived the actual hunt...
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