William Faulkner

He spent less than a year in college before leaving, and this brought him to his first job of any real length as postmaster at the university of Mississippi. It was experience like this which enabled Faulkner to learn the character traits and social mores of those he would come to mimic so well in his writings about this area and those in the South. The post office experience would not be the first time Faulkner would use his life's experiences to bring a certain vividness and meaning to his works. His first published work, Soldier's Pay is filled with his experience and atmosphere gained while working as postmaster: "There was a general movement into the post office. The mail was in and the window opened and even those who expected no mail, who had received no mail in months must needs answer one of the most enduring comp

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method of indirect narrative so persistently. One person tells all, or characters tell parts of the whole, so that a work like The Town is divided into narrators more than sections. This style also comes from an aspect and desire of the author's personal life. In one of his letters he expresses his desire to consolidate the issues of American life into one spokesman, who could report on them for the betterment of all and, "articulate in the national voice, and be listened to by others" (Brodsky xxxiii). Faulkner longed for a place and time when decisions about one's life would not be complicated by great upheavals in society. He longed for something which did not exist, in other words. Yet, even if he realized men were not made for utopia, he still gave woman a gentler time. He has good words for Narcissa and Miss Jenny in Sartoris. for Addie Bundren and Dewey Dell in As I Lay Dying, for Lena Groves and Joanna Burden in Light In August, and even for Eula and Linda Snopes in Intruder In The Dust. Underneath all the confusion and mystery in living, it seems Faulkner felt women were at least, if not an oasis men could understand, an oasis nonetheless. Perhaps his brother's comments on the author even further express Faulkn
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