Category: As I Lay Dying

The symbolism of different animals relates to specific characters in William Faulkners As I Lay Dying embodies that character’s inner feelings, thoughts, and overall mental state. Vardaman, who is the youngest of the Bundren family, is deeply affected by the death of his mother but he doesn’t realize it until he compares his dead mother…

Modernism defined American literature as a movement that emphasized the human experience and expanded on the psychological conditions of the human mind in reaction to its surrounding environment. William Faulkner embodies the abovementioned sentiment as he emerged an extreme modernist, whose literature can thus be examined as an experimentation with the human condition and its…

In the novel of desperation, As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner genuinely represents the effects of emotional distress in ones mind through a twisted and strange series of events happening to a country family. It is merely a fact that each person reacts differently to unavoidable disgraceful situations, and so is the case when the…