Mark Royden Winchell’s article in the Mississippi Quarterly entitled “O Happy Sin! Felix Culpa in All the King’s Men” is a very interesting read because it really examines the characters of Adam Stanton, Willie Stark, and Jack Burden in a new way. There are some drawbacks to the article however. I think Winchell chose to use too many quotes from other scholarly articles. The assumption could be made that just over half of …showed first 75 words of 840 total…

…showed last 75 words of 840 total…me to see the novel in a different light. Essentially, I agree with a lot of the points made and I can see the symbolism in each of the characters’ journey to enlightenment. I think the point of the scholarly article is to give the reader words to understand ideas he/she may already have formed in their mind. They also shed new light on aspects of a novel the reader may not have noticed.