William Faulkner “never stood taller than five feet, six inches,” but in the world of American Literature, he is colossal. (Padgett, John) Faulkner was more than a Mississippi writer and Nobel-Prize winning writer, he was a man who never graduated high school but transformed the nineteenth century, Southern America, through his written works: The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, Absalom, Absalom, “A Rose for Emily,” and “Barn Burning.” An American writer whose accomplishments were achieved through the use of literary techniques and unparalleled observational skills, Faulkner breathes life into the past by exposing the abusive behavior between races, social class, and genders under nineteenth century supremacy.
