Premium Content Shifting Sanity in As I Lay Dying
By Kathleen Dooley - May 23, 2003
One of William Faulkner's most celebrated qualities is his inventiveness. As I Lay Dying has fifteen unique narrators, one of them a dead woman, and the novel avoids traditional ideas of linear and chronological structure. Faulkner's style demands that his readers are aware of his multi-faceted process of seeing a story: if he tells the events in…
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