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William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying is dark, gruesome, and somewhat comedic portrayal of a southern family who has to travel across the countryside to bury their dead mother. Faulkner uses each character’s point of view in different chapters to tell the story. In doing so, Faulkner gives us an insight on who each character is as well as showing us how the world that we live in is nothing more than the way we perceive it to be. At least one critic has argued that As I lay Dying is “the bitterest of Faulkner’s early novels… presenting human existence as an absurd joke.” Where as others argue that the novel is “a triumph of fraternal feeling…a comic novel rooted in the earth and country folk and lighted by a new faith in humanity.” Both of these arguments, although opposites, can be shown throughout the course of this novel. As I Lay Dying conveys a conflicting message, causing the reader to think about how he or she portrays his or her own life. The reason that As I Lay Dying is a triumph of fraternal feeling, and lighted by a new faith in humanity, is because of the harsh circumstances in which the family must pull through in order to show feeling.

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Approximate Word count = 1730
Approximate Pages = 7 (250 words per page double spaced)