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William Faulkner (1897-1962) was one of the leading authors of the 20th century. Many of his novels and short stories were based on an imaginary area in Mississippi called Yoknapatawpna county. Famous for his depiction of the depravity and downfall of the southe ....

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.... next day we all said, “She will kill herself”; and we said it would be the best thing.”(720 Faulkner). The impersonal outlook held by this narration allows readers only to see the town’s point of view. In criticizing Faulkner’s use of third person as narrator James Ferguson stated that Faulkner learned “that he could achieve a variety of different effects through manipulation of authorial voice”(97 Ferguson). Faulkner desired the reader to dislike Emily, and therefore he created a narration that disliked Emily. This limitation of the third person is one of several of Faulkner's devices to steer the imagination of his readers. One of Fa ....