William Cuthbert Faulkner: A Southern American Writer William Faulkner states, “If a story is in you, it has to come out.” This quote is just mind blowing, not only because Faulkner's story was such a huge impact on the twentieth century, but how he shaped the future of literature. William Faulkner (1897-1962) an original American writer very much dealt with modernism. This movement began in the late 1800 and lasted up till about the late 1900. This movement was valued by experimentation and individualism. William Faulkner, coming from a Southern society, ranks as one of America's greatest novelists due to his imaginative power and depths of his later works. After William's father passing away he looked to pay the bills. Faulkner then stepped …show more content…
Padgett. Padgett is saying that williams sentence structure is very complex. As in the more complex the sentence, the more complex the characters thoughts are going to be. Often Faulkner's description of an object will be followed by a description of character, where all this follows his sentence structure. William Faulkner’s writing element is stylistic technique, which is the use of any variety or any auxiliary meaning or idea of feeling. Faulkner always has a purpose at which stylistic technique he is going to use at any point in his novels. I would definitely agree with padgett. Most of Faulkner's greatness comes from his style and the way he adjusts his writing style to fit the subject, and how he can fit the narration of traditional writing while mixing new narrative …show more content…
This sentence here is a perfect example, “attacked, insulted, frightened.” No one knew exactly what had happened. In A Rose for Emily, “It was a big squarish frame house, that had once been white decorated with cupolas and spiers and scrolled balconies in the heavily lightsome style of the seventies set on once or most selected street.”I can see that he is characterizing Mrs Emily by the lightsome. she is “small and to spare.” lightsome because of her slight figure. In the Barn Burning, the sentences that seem on going, “ so he ran down the drive, blood and breath roaring; presently he was in the road again though he could not see.” It is difficult to tell or to determine what Faulkner is saying. “blood and breath roaring” showing that he is so caught up in conflicting his loyalty that he loses physical