migrating ambassador for peace and good public relations. His goal in 1958 was to go on writing for another 30 years, but his death in 1962 stilled that goal. The actual events of his life served as some of his most unusual and amusing stories within his works.
Faulkner's plots are always deeply layered, and as confusing as he can make them. He seems to be mimicking the confusion of life, as he, on every page, makes us keep guessing what has happened, or to whom. For example, in Light In August we are informed that Lena is swelling with child, but it is two hundred pages more before the culprit's identity in that misfortune is revealed. Repeated flashbacks ignore chronology, past and present are combined as contemporary forces, and the current time period is explained by the past, which is further illuminated by an incident from an earlier past. His style is as bizarre as are his people and as confounding as his plots. It is a hurried style, piling comma upon comma, phrase upon phrase, and one sentence can span the entire page.
All this originality certainly gives a vigor and vitality to the Mississippi--or Yoknapatawpha--man in Faulkner's works. However, the confusion, hurried pace and complexity that mark all of his works are perhaps
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