William Faulkner is viewed by many as America's greatest writer of prose fiction. He was born in New Albany, Mississippi, where he lived a life filled with good times as well as bad. However, despite bad times he would become known as a poet, a short story writer, and finally one of the greatest contemporary novelists of his time. William Faulkner's accomplishments resulted not only from his love and devotion to ... husband and returned to Oxford with the two children of the marriage, Malcolm and Victoria (known as Cho Cho) . Faulkner got a job working at the university power plant. "In Octob...

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• Grade Level: High School

The novel, As I Lay Dying, by William Faulkner is composed of narrations by individual characters in the story that use their own personal experiences to describe what is occurring throughout the book. Each character in the novel has his or her own voice and opinions as they tell story of Addie Bundren's death and the family's consequential trip to town. However, despite this wide array of narrations, the novel ... is actually in Darl's own monologue where he speaks of himself in the third person. This type of behavior forces the reader to question even Darl's dependability as a narrator. The...

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