As I Lay Dying | Techniques
Faulkner's narrative point of view in As I Lay Dying is a challenge to readers. The reader's entire sense of character comes from the fifteen character/narrators who relate fifty-nine interior monologues. According to Robert Humphrey, these monologues are internal meditations of the action and they represent psychic content and processes of character, partly or entirely unuttered, just as these processes exist at various levels of conscious control. Without an omniscient third-person perspective or a clear authorial view, these perspectives may be flawed. Cora, Vernon Tull's wife...
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