... himself to be part of "a human family, of the human family." Faulkner's metaphor points to a state of communal wholeness, as within a coherent and loving family, the individual's identity would be defined, recognized, and sustained. (Book Tower, p. 153) The story is read by ways of the internal speeches of several characters in and out of the family. This underlines one of the ... and visions throughout the novel, such as when he vividly sets the aspects of the path around the farm: ...it turns and circles the cotton-house at four soft right angles and goes on across the field again, wo...

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