With fifteen
different narratives in the form
of stream of consciousness, the reader
of understands
that there are fifteen different realities--no absolutes.
In this way, the
reader is presented with what motivates each narrator and how each faces
misfortune. Thus, all of life is portrayed: its anger, its irrationality, its poignancy,
and
satiric humor--even its morbid , confusion, and pathos. In his 1952
work, : A Critical
Study, Irving Howe states,
Of all Faulkner's
novels, As
I Lay Dying is the warmest, the kindliest
and most
affectionate€¦. In no other work is he so receptive to people, so ready to take
and
love them, to hear them out and record their turns of , their melodies of
speech.
Certainly, Faulkner's
portrayal of character is more intimate with
his use of. For instance, in
Section 40 as Addie narrates, the reader learns the hollowness that
she has
felt when she was single, strangely whipping her students in...
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