I definitely gather that he is committed to accurately depicting southern lango. It is a huge element of the character of the whole novel. I feel as though I can hear their voices speaking to me.
I can tell that Faulkner was not scared to reveal a deeper look at life in the South and that he was willing to write about aspects that others were not such as what happened with Dewell’s abortion etc. I think it is incredibly special that he himself grew up in a town in Mississippi and that was the foundation he built his writing upon for “As I Lay Dying”.
There is a sense of melancholy throughout the whole writing. It is dark and it feels somewhat hopeless, but it feels very real. On this basis, I can gather that his hard past must also incorporate into his writing specifically with his baby that died at a week old.
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