Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!: An Innovative Narrative Technique
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Guilt should be viewed through the eyes of more than one person,
southern or otherwise. William Faulkner filters the story, Absalom,
Absalom!, through several minds providing the reader with a dilution of its
representation. Miss Rosa, frustrated, lonely, mad, is unable to answer
her own questio ....
Middle of paper
.... explains to Quentin why
she wanted to visit old mansion on this day. She is the one narrator that
is unable to view Sutpen objectively. The first chapter serves as merely
an introduction to the history of Sutpen based on what Miss Rosa heard as a
child and her brief personal experiences.
The narration of Absalom, Absalom!, can be considered a coded
activity. Faulkner creates the complex narration beginning at chapter 2.
It ironic that one of Faulkner's greatest novels is one in which the aut ....
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