The Sound and the Fury, I'm not sure how to interpret this book. I tried to reading As I Lay Dying. Could not get it! However, A Light in August is an American Masterpiece. The character Joe Christmas evolves before your eyes as an orphan under righteous-almighty pa and ma. He undergoes a transformation as he tries to reconcile his bi-racial Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time. From the Modern Library's new set of beautifully repackaged hardcover classics by William Faulkner—also available are Snopes, The Sound and the Fury, Light in August, Absalom, Absalom!, and Selected Short Stories. One of William Faulkner's finest novels, As I Lay Dying, originally published in 1930, remains a As I Lay Dying (1930) is a combination of comedy, horror, and compassion, a narrative woven from the inarticulate desires of a peasant family in conflict. It presents the conscious, unconscious, and sometimes hallucinatory impressions of the husband, daughter, and four sons of Addie Bundren, the long-suffering matriarch of her rural Mississippi In As I Lay Dying, the main idea, or theme, is that of obsession. On the surface, this novel appears to be about the Bundren family's desire to give their mother what she wanted, even in death. However, after careful analysis it becomes evident that most of the novel's characters actually possess an ulterior motive that drives them to be so Summary . Darl begins the novel with a short but telling section. He and Jewel are walking up to the house. On the walk, Darl mentions the heat, Jewel's "pale eyes like wood," Tull's wagon, and the box that Cash is making for Addie. Notes . Faulkner uses Darl's first section to situate him as a reliable, straightforward narrator. As I Lay Dying is told by fifteen different narrators over the course of fifty-nine narrative sections. The first section belongs to Darl Bundren, who introduces us to his brothers Cash and Jewel and his dying mother, Addie. The Bundrens live on a rural farm in Mississippi in the 1920s. .

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