els is the commonly disfigured characters. Faulkner did not use his grotesque in an evil manner like most gothic writers. Instead he used them to evoke pity and sympathy. Faulkner was much more than just a gothic writer. By never telling his gothic stories in first person or form the heroes point of view he was able to disassociate himself from common gothic writers. (Elizibeth M. Kerr, 264)When discussing Faulkner’s writing style no conversation is complete with out a lot of time spent on Faulkner’s use of time in his works. “One may describe Faulknerian time as a continuum: time flowing from past into present and from present into past.” One of things made apparent in Faulkner’s writings is that time in itself is irrelevant. The important thing is that events happen not when they happen. He has no objection at all to leaving what he is talking about to take you back to something happened much earlier and then moving past what you were talking about to what happens in the future. He is also known to skip certain events in his stories. This is used to add shock and importance to other events, which would seem unimportant or irrelevant. His use of time is so unique that it often breaks down to that fact he denies that a past exists. When he does this you are forced to concentrate on the present and go by moment by moment with him. As the story moves you become aware of the past slowly. It is not unusual for him to lead you to thinking one way and then he as if on a side not dictates you a small part of history which discounts everything and changes the whole story. So Unique is his use of time that it not only is defied in the novel itself, but in the series of novels. The novels written about Yoknapatawpha County are not written in chronological order like one would expect when reading a series. Instead the novels are an intricate web of different times bound together only by the setting. ...
