Concerning Faulkner’s recurring themes, Leary explained that they were inspired by the “depth of his compassion toward people who struggled and wrangled, destroying each other and themselves, but whose indomitable spirit would not only endure, but finally prevail.” įorcing upon themselves the illusion that their odyssee be morally inspired, the Bundren family carry their mother’s corpse on a dangerous journey to Jefferson, where she wished to be buried with her ancestors. Obscurity and the Construction of Reality / Comedyįull of opposing thoughts and paradox situations, Faulkner’s Southern gothic novel As I Lay Dying succeeds in making a philosophical statement about the absurdity of life, smiling upon the desperation and futility of the characters and their actions, but at the same time causing a feeling of sympathy in the reader for what they are prepared to endure. Problems of the Human Psyche in Modernity
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