on his thoughts and feelings. Vardamans language is the simplest and seemingly incoherent, yet his childish thoughts come across strongly. Vardaman sees his mother as a fish due to his lack of understanding reality and metaphors.Language is a power tool for Darl, Dewey Dell, and Cash but for their mother Addie it is a limitation. She says, words dont ever fit even what they are trying to say at. Addie believes that language is the experience and words will never match that. While the children feel defined by their language, she feels defined by experiences. She makes this clear when she describes a scene with Cora Tull, And so when Cora Tull would tell me I was not a true mother, I would think how words go straight up in a thin line, quick and harmless, and how terribly doing goes along the earth.The whole technique that Faulkner uses with language and his characters most fits stream of consciousness. He puts pure thought into the language. This technique helps to fix any of the limitations that language puts on conveying thought. This shows in Vardaman whos language skills havent developed totally yet. He demonstrates stream of consciousness to the extreme by his somewhat confusing and random comments. However, these are how Vardaman views things and words are added to try and let the reader see into the mind of the character.To overcome the language limitation of words not always adequately showing thought, Faulkner sometimes goes beyond the scope of what words can express. This is demonstrated when the characters make up non-existent words to convey what they are feeling or thinking that normal words fail to describe. They also use metaphors and similes to show comparisons. One example of when words just fail is when Faulkner leaves a blank space in the middle of a dialogue because there is just no word to describe it. Another example is when Tull is describing the casket that Cash is making and he has no word for it s...
