As I Lay Dying William Faulkner

As I Lay Dying
William Faulkner was one of the greatest Southern writers of the twentieth century and all his novels are written about the South, especially As I Lay Dying. "In all of As I Lay Dying, Faulkner turned to extreme uses of the first-person narration; it is as if he saw the need to purge his work of his undeveloped omniscient instincts by eliminating his own voice entirely"(Bryfonski 9:199). This novel is about a family composed of a husband and five children traveling to Jefferson, Mississippi, to bury their wife and mother, Addie, beside her father. ". . .William Faulkner's As…