![]() ![]() The novel consists of fifteen unique narrators, each with their own perspective. The modern approach that Faulkner takes towards the novel’s form involves the use of precise formatting, syntax variety, different vernaculars, and multiple voices. Faulkner employs a poetic and polyphonic style to expose the paradoxical, symbolic nature of language within the human experience as both an inadequate form yet realistic function of being human. In particular, Faulkner juxtaposes the literal funeral journey of Addie Bundren and her family with the reflective nature of their mental states and attempts to articulate emotions. Among his renowned works, As I Lay Dying focuses on the psychological processes that human beings undergo to cope with a traumatic personal experience. 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 response to substantial life events. 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. ![]()
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