“I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance”. William Faulkner’s novels suggest the difference between his literal and everyday rationalized ideology of race as a white Mississippian. He believed that America’s racial diversity could enrich society if it were recognized and celebrated ; if race were to be suppressed and unnoticed, it will lead to spread only madness. Mississippi marked his sense for humor, his sense of the tragic position of Black and White Americans. Though, William Faulkner is said to had been a product of his time and place, he still managed
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Faulkner’s characters often endured terrible struggles, but he treated them with dignity. For example the novel, The Sound and the Fury, is based on a family who are struggling to deal with the end of their family and it’s reputation. The Compson family falls into financial crisis, they lose their religious faith and the respect of the town, and many of the characters die tragically. William Faulkner, too, faced many hardships throughout his life which have reflected on his writings. His story is one of the more remarkable feats of American literature, how a young man who never graduated from high school, never received a college degree, living in a small town in the poorest state in the nation, all the while balancing a growing family of dependents and impending financial ruin, could during the Great Depression write a series of novels all set in the same small Southern county — novels that include As I Lay Dying, Light in August, and above all, Absalom, Absalom! — that would one day be recognized as among the greatest novels ever written by an American (Padgett, John B. "William Faulkner." MWP: (1897-1962). N.p., n.d. Web. 1 Dec.
Faulkner’s characters often endured terrible struggles, but he treated them with dignity. For example the novel, The Sound and the Fury, is based on a family who are struggling to deal with the end of their family and it’s reputation. The Compson family falls into financial crisis, they lose their religious faith and the respect of the town, and many of the characters die tragically. William Faulkner, too, faced many hardships throughout his life which have reflected on his writings. His story is one of the more remarkable feats of American literature, how a young man who never graduated from high school, never received a college degree, living in a small town in the poorest state in the nation, all the while balancing a growing family of dependents and impending financial ruin, could during the Great Depression write a series of novels all set in the same small Southern county — novels that include As I Lay Dying, Light in August, and above all, Absalom, Absalom! — that would one day be recognized as among the greatest novels ever written by an American (Padgett, John B. "William Faulkner." MWP: (1897-1962). N.p., n.d. Web. 1 Dec.