Faulkner's style of writing

Faulkner's writing style is one that can use harsh ways to show hatred toward one kind. For example the use of the N word in his writings shows that he is a racist man and that the african americans are only useful as slaves and that it is their only purpose. He also places people into classes to show where they are within the society. Most of his stories consist of the main character putting people down with harsh words and actions.

The two stories I have read, A rose for Emily and Barn burning, were both stories with a character you could maybe say was a little off mentally. In A rose for Emily, Emily was in the higher class when her father was alive but as time went on things changed and the change left Emily behind. She did not realize this and some of the things she did in the story were unacceptable in the society she was living in. For example sleeping with her lovers dead body for over 40 years or even keeping her fathers dead body in the basement. As you can tell Emily was not mentally stable and had not realized that their was a new system in the world.

In Barn burning the father Col. Santoris Snopes gets asked to leave where he is living because of an occasion where he has sent a native american to a guys house to burn down his barn. In the context of the story Faulkner uses the N word to speak of the native american to prove the hatred he had towards those people. Also the class Col. Snopes was in had been of a higher class which he thought had given him more power.

Faulkner used the examples of Social standards and what class you are in to classify people. In both of the stories the characters were in the higher classes but had moved down as time went on, but the characters had not noticed so they were still stuck in the past. Faulkner's writing has a twist to it to keep you interested and coming back to read more. His stories have endings that you would never imagine would happen and thats what makes his writing so popular.