Several possible contrasts and oppositions in Faulkner's The Old People

Re-read Williams Faulkner's story The Old People (pretty sure I read and maybe posted on it just a year or two ago) - very unusual and impressive story of course, and a good example of Faulkner's later style, which became increasingly baroque - or maybe rococo - and willfully difficult and sometimes almost a self-parody in his final years but was in top form in this story: about a young boy - 10 years old? - and his initiation to big-game hunting - w/ his father and various men in the upper reaches of the social scale in Yaknapatoawpha County and under the tutelage of Sam Fathers, a Native American, perhaps descended from a chief, bu in the white-dominated culture of the time - early 20th century - an outsider and treated on a par with the blacks - although he seems possessed of a princely aura or power - acknowledged as the premier hunter and woodsman, and granted tolerance and independence never enjoyed by any of the blacks. It seems that in return for his initiating the boys into the world of hunting he can do just about whatever he wants with his time, including doing nothing - he runs some kind of small shop, but nobody gives him orders and he's never seen doing much of anything, can spend a whole day gazing into space, eventually given "permission" to live in a remote cabin in the woods (which formerly housed another native American, whom Sam would sometimes visit to speak with in their own language about the old times), his only obligation seeming to be to meet the hunters each fall and guide them through the woods. The story is one of contrasts: between the woods and the settled farmland (the woods, the hunting grounds, are dark and mysterious - would make a great contrast w/ the fishing/hunting grounds of the writer most often contrasted w/ Faulkner, i.e., Hemingway), between white (privileged, dominant, masculine) and "colored" culture, including in colored both black and native (another Hemingway comparison possible there, see Indian Camp?), between known reality and the mystical and visionary world that the "old people" of the title perceived, represented at the end of the story by the enormous buck that Sam leads the boy to, but that they don't shoot - and that none of the adult men ever sees (though one remembers Sam leading him to the same buck when he was a boy). What's with the boy, by the way? WF makes clear his place in a lineage - his father and grandfather had similar initiations, and he will live a long life - but there seems to be complete indifference regarding his schooling, other than his initiation into manhood. And as to the hunt, though presumably the men and their families (and neighbors?) consume all the game, there's also a blood lust to the sport and a frightening effort to ensure dominion through assault and weaponry.