... story are not seen through the eyes of the ten-year-old Sarty but a mature Sarty Snopes. One of the best examples of this is the scene where Sarty's father, Abner strikes his son. Immediately after this scene the narrator invokes the mature Sarty to ponder young boy's tormented childhood. According to Rio- Joliffe, Faulkner combines conventional narrative techniques of flashback ... such example where the reader is surrounded with the smell of cheese. (Faulkner 148). Another instance with quite detailed references to smells is in the description of the house where Abner and his family m...

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