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A 5 page paper which examines how the issues of race and class influence the novel’s characters. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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felt when the plantation life that had defined them was gone forever. During those times, race and class distinctions reflected peoples identities not only for themselves but also for
their community. Sons not only carried their fathers names, but their families history as well. However, the Civil War defeat shattered Southern society, and as people struggled to
pick up the pieces, they were forced by circumstances to forge new identities. Nevertheless, the issues of race and class that had shaped the antebellum South were still very
much a part of the post-Civil War landscape. Faulkners second novel, As I Lay Dying, published in 1930, has been described as his "most deliberate formal experiment" (Landa 63).
The novel is obviously a calculated departure from The Sound and the Fury and his subsequent works in that it focused not on the aristocratic class, but rather on
the lower class of farm workers who had emerged after the war. It represents Faulkners modernist approach to literature, in that it is constructed not in a linear pattern,
but rather flows as a "stream of conscious style" (William Faulkner). What this means is that there is not a singular narrator, but fifteen of them, most of whom
were the lowliest class of Yoknapatawpha County farmers, of the same caliber as the migrant workers of the West (William Faulkner). While many of Faulkners writings focus upon
the issue of race in terms of blacks and whites, As I Lay Dying does not feature African-American characters. However, race is very evident in the characterizations of the
featured family, the Bundrens, for they represent a new race Southern society had been forced to include after the War, the impoverished white families that were performing the same field
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