William Faulkner

“Faulkner’s Works—A Breadth of Social Vision” In Faulkner’s works, his distinctive achievement was to combine a penetrating grasp of individual consciousness—“the story behind every brow”—with a remarkable breadth of social vision. His writings encompassed with many different types of people…equal authority aristocrats and poor whites; black people and Indians; old maids and matriarchs; Christ-like scapegoats and pathological murderers; intellectuals and idiots (Standberg 1). Faulkner created a body of work that …

…which deny her an element of humanity (Fowler 125). Russell 4 William Faulkner has become known as one of the most important figures in 20th century literature (Holman 52). He has put a big impact on many people and has also left many philosophers and critics with much to think about. Later in his years, he received the Nobel Prize (1949), the National Book Award (1951), and two Pulitzer prizes (1955,1963), which have all lead up to his fame and (Holman 52).