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Faulkner was born in the Deep South where he set most of his writings. His
father was the business manager for the State University in Oxford, Mississippi. He
was brought up by a black nurse who told him many stories of the slavery time. He
hated school, had only two years of high school education. A neighbor called Philip
Stone introduced famous writers to him and later helped publish his novels.
He loved Estella who went to Asia after her marriage. Heartbroken, Faulkner
enlisted himself in the Air Force, but the War ended before he finished training. In
1929, Estella came back and married Faulkner and they settled in a deserted mansion
where he worked as a full-time author.
Faulkner sought to explain the present by examining the past and especially the
relationship between blacks and whites. He employed two literary techniques:
a. multiple point of view: how characters react differently to the same person or
situation
b. stream-of-consciousness: telling a story by recording the thoughts of a
character
In 1950, Faulkner received the Nobel Prize for literature. He ranks with
Hemingway. His acceptance speech talks about the task of a writer.
Homework:
1. Read Eugene O’Neill’s Desire Under the Elms.
2. Presentations topics:
-- What is the central conflict in the play?
-- What does the big elm tree symbolize?