Le storie di caccia che animano "La grande foresta" compongono, come i capitoli di un romanzo, un'unica, grande storia: quella della conquista di una maturità che for the young Ike McCaslin is accomplished when the first killing prey - or perhaps the moment when the prey acknowledges and agrees to be man enough to kill him. Because the forest is a physical and Faulkner projection metaphysics, and man, through the ritual of the hunt, you come to understand themselves and their identity in relation to others and especially from nature. A wild and noble, powerful and timeless, whose symbol is the lame big bear, Old Ben, chased and hunted down by dogs and hunters year after year, in compliance with codes and rituals passed down from father to son, and shared so much As the latest Chickasaw Indians by whites, poor and ignorant or 'aristocratic' as McCaslin and De Spain. A moral continuity, harmonic, but Ike will go down just when, weakened by the axes in a forest and progress as a fighter closed on the corner, ripped from the concrete and tar, his grandchildren are going to hunt without qualms or more rules, and kill just for the sake of killing.
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