Ernest J. Gaines was the brilliant author of the novel, A Gathering of Old Men. This book mainly is a fictional story about the real life prejudices whites had against blacks in the 1970's. Earnest displays these prejudices through carefully thought out characters. The main protagonist of the story is a white woman known as Candy. She is an orphan who was raised by neighbors near a plantation in the Deep South where the story …showed first 75 words of 2004 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2004 total…an interesting twist and keeps the reader interested until the very end. Also, this book is wonderful because it is written they way a southern person would talk. This, more than anything, kept my attention focussed on the book because it gave the feeling that they were really in the deep south listening in on all the conversation. Over all, I liked A Gathering of Old Men tremendously for its content and creative writing style.