private favorite and love of Addie. Darl however, appears to be indifferent to his mother and the three dollar load. Everyone else knows that Jewel is, in fact, the favorite child; this makes the characters unreliable in retelling the actual events to the reader. Each monologue is “clouded” with the viewpoints and ideas of the character narrating it, so it is impossible to have an objective account of what really happened. Using the form that Faulkner uses we can also see that while Darl narrates many chapters in the novel, and is viewed as the most “reliable” character, this idea is ruined when he is sent to an asylum. “Darl has gone to Jackson. They put him on the train, laughing, down the long car laughing; the heads turn like the heads of owls when he passed (Faulkner 254).” In Darl’s final monologue he refers to himself in the third person, which makes the reader question his dependability and objectiveness. Vardaman’s very short monologue, “my mother is a fish” is an example of how the mind can become confused and twist things around and interpret events subjectively. Vardaman mixed up his mother’s death as an association of both the large fish he caught earlier and the arrival of Peabody, in “reality” neither of these events caused his mother’s death, yet interpreted it in this way. Throughout the novel, each character has not only brought their own viewpoints; they have also brought their own past experiences, accounts of the present and dreams of the future. Through the way Faulkner, writes his book we can get the theme that there are two sides to every story. We can only make of what people tell us or what we have seen. We just have to be careful and objective in order to search the truth. ...
