ity to his own non-fictional Lafayette County. Yoknapatawpha is the country where the Snopes family roams. The Snopes go from place to place traveling the southern terrain that Faulkner grew up in, and is so familiar with. Miss Emily lives in the town of Jefferson within Yoknapatawpha. Jefferson is the non-fictional version of Oxford Faulkner’s home town. He describes Miss Emily’s house if it was on a main street that was once residential, and as time went on became more commercial. Her house was once a place of envy, a big beautiful home. Judging from the employment of Faulkner’s grandparents he was likely very wealthy, or at least much more wealthy than the people around him. He likely grew up in a house much like Miss Emily’s. He probably looked down upon families such as the Snopes’, and down on the common people such as the chatty ladies who were so anxious to see the inside of Miss Emily’s home. He portrays these people in a proletariat fashion because it comes naturally to him. Growing up he was wealthy and his writing gives the impression that he is above the others in his neighborhood.

He was so familiar with the characters he used in part because he constantly reused them over and over, but mostly it was because many of his characters were based on non-fictional people in his life. Faulkner’s Sartoris was his third novel, and was an important stepping stone in his writing career. According to William Van O’Connor, a biographer of Faulkner’s, “Sartoris marks the end of an apprenticeship.” The novel is an account of the Sartoris family, who greatly resembled the Falkner fa

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