William Faulkner의 "As I Lay Dying"에 대한 考察 = A Study on William Faulkner's "As I Lay Dying"

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Seen from the aspects of technique, 'As I Lay Dying' (1930) is the extension of 'The Sound and The Fury' (1929). Furthermore, we might say the former is much more developed and deepened than the latter.
In 'As I Lay Dying', there is no methodical contradiction derived from the three sections of subjective monologues and one section of objective description in the 'The Seound and The Fury'. Alternatively 'As I Lay Dying' is flawlessly composed, and consists of fifty-nine monologues through the whole book.
Crossing farce with anguish, 'As I Lay Dying' is a story of misfortunes fabulously multiplied. In 'As I Lay Dying' the theme is death, death as it shapes life. The outer action, never to be neglected and always fearsomely and absurdly spectacular, is a journey in a wagon; the inner action is the attempt of the Bundrens to define as members of a family at the moment the family is perishing.
The great peculiarity of 'As I Lay Dying' is exhaunstive in the internal and external monologue technique by many visions, which replaces the first person narrator in the 'The Sound and The Fury'.
'As I Lay Dying' deals with the death and funeral journey of Addie Bundren. It is divided into fifty-nine monologues, each containing the thoughts, memories, words overheard and spoken by one of the fifteen narrators - the Bundrens, their neighbors and strangers. In interpreting the situation and activities of the Bundrens they disclose the preoccupations, secrets, felling and personalities of their own. However, most of their interpretations are mistaken and the discrepancies between the words and actions result in the irony of the disparity between appearance and reality.