find that the subject has very little bearing at all. However despite these few annoying writing habits in the end it keeps the reader involved and looking to the next sentence for meaning, until he drops in the final sentence, which brings everything together and unites them. (Conrad Aiken, 200)You would be very much forsaken if you said that Faulkner’s style lies in his grammar alone. He is instead much more known for writing from several points of view. By narration through the mentally deficient, psychologically disturbed, and the romantic idealist Faulkner is able to display events in new and previously unheard of ways. “Faulkner never abandoned the advantages of the omniscient author but tried various limitations of omniscience, always with the purpose of getting inside a character and involving the reader as fully as possible.” (Elizabeth M. Kerr, 264) Another unique thing about Faulkner’s point of view writings is that he often make no clear attempt to tell the reader what really happened, instead you are forced to see the events through the unusual eyes of several on lookers. The reader is forced to go along and see as each person sees and adjust the truth to their point o view. If you are lucky enough one of the narrators will resemble not only your lifestyle, but also personal opinions. If so you are forced to take a look and examine how you think through certain events. In many of his books he takes you on journey much resembling a circle. You are forced to run around the outside trying to look in on one central event. With every step you view the event from a different time or viewpoint. This gives you by the time the novel is finished an all encompassing view of a central event, yet leaves with no absolute truth about anything. It offers you events and truths from each view that get disproved time and time again by the offering of other events and truths. The final result being that ...
