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Paper Abstract: Brief biography & critical analysis of four stories. Paper Introduction: This study will provide a brief biography of William Faulkner, and will then present three critical reviews of several of his stories ("A Rose for Emily"; "Barn Burning"; "Red Leaves"; and "There Was A Queen"). Finally the study will present this reader's own views on Faulkner. Faulkner was born on September 25, 1897, in New Albany, Mississippi. He moved with his family to Oxford in 1902, was educated in Mississippi, and in 1918 went to Toronto where he was trained in the British Royal Air Force, where he became an honorary second lieutenant. He briefly attended the University of Mississippi in 1919-1920, withdrawing to take odd jobs until his first book, The Marble Faun, was published in 1924. The next year he published a number of stories, and in 1929 published The Sound and the Fury and Sartoris. Text of the Paper: The entire text of the paper is shown below. However, the text is somewhat scrambled. We want to give you as much information as we possibly can about our papers and essays, but we cannot give them away for free. In the text below you will find that while disordered, many of the phrases are essentially intact. From this text you will be able to get a solid sense of the writing style, the concepts addressed, and the sources used in the research paper. For example, in "A Rose For Emily," Gold writes that Faulkner tellsthe story of a woman who is alienated from the world in which she lives.She retreats into her own reality, keeping in her bed the corpse of herlong-dead lover. (is) able to see with clearer, more innocent eyes . William Faulkner. . The nextyear he published a number of stories, and in 1929 published The Sound andthe Fury and Sartoris. . Kerr writes, for example, that "Faulkner provides the perfectsymbolic expression of the principle in the edict of Colonel Sartoris: 'noNegro woman should appear on the streets without an apron'" (Kerr 1 8). In other words, Faulkner is doing many things all at once, tellingmany stories at the same time, with many levels of meaning. . He asks that the reader fullyparticipate in the story. Her father is the culprit in the story: "When he dies,the town makes this observation: 'We-remembered all the young men herfather had driven away, and we knew that with nothing left, she would haveto cling to that which had robbed her . Brooks points out that Garnett is a British reviewer, and that in anumber of cases, British readers have some trouble when confronted withFaulkner's thick and rich style. . Garnett is not a lazy reader, but he is a reader who needs to takesome time to see that Faulkner's style is not a pretense, not a trick, notmeant to confuse the reader for confusion's sake. . . Kerrshows that Faulkner was a great writer because he showed the truth about anentire society and not merely individual characters. . It is amagnificent, a marvelous story, a work which only a great creative artistcould have written. The style, as Brookspoints out, serves the story well. Faulkner takes us into an unimagined world,absolutely fantastic and absolutely convincing" (Brooks 119). But Brooks points out that in many cases a second reading revealsthat the style fits the story perfectly. Indians" (Kerr 83), and in "There WasA Queen," Kerr notes that Faulkner compares the types of womanhood: " . . New York: Fordham UP, 1969.----------------------- 6 The lazy reader will not have a chance withFaulkner. Faulkner died of a heart attack on July 6, 1962, and the next yearwas awarded another Pulitzer Prize, posthumously, for The Reivers (Hoffman13-15). . . He writes that onecritic, David Garnett, in reviewing Faulkner's story "Red Leaves," firstsaid that he hated Faulkner's style. On one level, the stories of "Barn Burning," "Red Leaves," "A Rosefor Emily," and "There Was A Queen" are entertaining and intense tales ofhuman relationships. He is writing about people who aredeeply connected to the land and to the society of the South in which theylive. Aunt Jenny Du Pre . Faulkner was born on September 25, 1897, in New Albany, Mississippi.He moved with his family to Oxford in 19 2, was educated in Mississippi,and in 1918 went to Toronto where he was trained in the British Royal AirForce, where he became an honorary second lieutenant. . Faulkner does write a "difficult"story in that he asks much of the reader. . Boston: Twayne, 1961.Kerr, Elizabeth. .. . On the Prejudices, Predilections, and Firm Beliefs of William Faulkner. In addition, he is writing about the struggles between the classes),the sexes, the races, and so on, and especially the struggles between thegenerations within the various families he writes about. . . This reader agrees with Brooks that therich and thick style of Faulkner involves and rewards the reader who iswilling to work to discover the special world created by the author. . But there is always something mysterious anddifficult in each story which makes the reader work a little harder to findout what is going on beneath the surface. represented the counterfeit image of pureSouthern womanhood" (Kerr 122). (willing) tojudge each individual as an individual . Gold sheds light on Faulkner's ability to show that thefather's sins are indeed visited upon the son (or daughter), but thatchildren are at least momentarily free from such generational imprisonment. Throughout the 195 s and at the peak of his fame, Faulkner traveledthe world, receiving awards such as the Pulitzer Prize and another NationalBook Award for The Fable in 1955. ."(Gold 78). The child Snopes of 'BarnBurning'. Yoknapatawpha. Brooks explores the issue of Faulkner's style. . What makes his work all the more complex is that he tells his storiesin such a rich style, with lengthy sentences full of clauses and phrasesand descriptions which draw the reader on at the same time that it forcesthat reader to keep working hard, keep hacking through the thickets of thestyle. As the critics point out, Faulkner is not just writing aboutindividual characters in relationships. Faulkner's genius is composed of all these elements, especially themany-layered nature of his stories, and his complex style. In "Red Leaves," Kerr writes, Faulkner in part explores the "completecorruption and degeneration of . Then, on a second reading later,Garnett wrote that "It was with some such astonishment that I reread 'RedLeaves, which unfolds itself slowly, almost unintelligibly . I Thus her father, onegeneration, in a sense, killed her, or the best in her, the nextgeneration, just as she actually kills the present in the figure of HomerBarron" (Gold 24-25). Kerr writes that Faulkner's Ab Snopes in "Barn Burning" isrepresentative of only one type of rural character portrayed by Faulkner.In Faulkner's stories, the whole range of such rural characters is shown.In both "Barn Burning" and "A Rose for Emily," Faulkner shows thesuperiority of whites over blacks in the minds of Southern whites (Kerr1 8; 152). . . He briefly attendedthe University of Mississippi in 1919-192 , withdrawing to take odd jobsuntil his first book, The Marble Faun, was published in 1924. Norman: U of Oklahoma P, 1966.Hoffman, Frederick. William Faulkner. They wrongly believe Faulkner to bepretending somehow, to be putting on a show, to be hiding behind aconfusing style because he has nothing to say to the reader. Gold covers "A Rose For Emily" and "Barn Burning" in such a way thatwe come to see a number of important points made by Faulkner with respectto the conflicts between different generations in families. Faulkner worked off and on in Hollywood for economic reasons anddrank heavily throughout his life, particularly in this Hollywood period.In 195 , he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, and received aNational Book Award for his Collected Stories in 1951. Faulkner is a very complex writer and it is necessary for the readerto work hard to understand all the different qualities of the writing. Gold says that one of the elements of Faulkner's genius was hisability to portray children as being somewhat free from this generationaltrap: "In this way the child, not yet fully conditioned by usage andacquaintance, assumes a special significance in Faulkner's work, becausethe child, being newer and less rigid, is . Kerr's critical analysis, in this context, focuses on the differencesbetween groups of people--blacks and whites, rural types and urban types,Indians and nonIndians, socioeconomic classes, and so on. This study will provide a brief biography of William Faulkner, andwill then present three critical reviews of several of his stories ("A Rosefor Emily"; "Barn Burning"; "Red Leaves"; and "There Was A Queen").Finally the study will present this reader's own views on Faulkner. Kerr's point is that Faulkner's stories were meant not only to showindividual characters in relationship but were meant to show the entiresociety of the South. more . Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP.Gold, Joseph. Kerr is effective in arguing that the strength of Faulkner's storiesis found in the author's portrayal of the entire range of characters. Works CitedBrooks, Cleanth. If this paper is not what you are looking for, you can search again: Search for: or Click here to request an essay written just for you.