the supposed innocence of the Americans with the worldliness and corruption of Europe. The possibility of social justice depends on the society in which one lives and the way one defines justice, but the individual must conform in some degree to the demands of society in order to be accepted and to be accorded a degree of latitude that might be termed social justice. European society and American society differ in the social values they promote.
Faulkner sees social justice as something that has been denied in the South to a large proportion of the citizenry because of the reality of the region's past. The fact of slavery as an institution has left a legacy in the South that shapes relations in the present. Blacks were denied social justice and are still denied. The South is a hierarchical social structure very much shaped in the present by guilt over the pas
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