William Faulkner's Accomplishments

William Faulkner is more than just a famous Mississippi born author. He is an inspiring being, not only for writers originating the south, but for writers throughout the entire world. Faulkner created such simple settings and complex characters for his novels and short stories from observations made during his child and adult life in his hometown of, Oxford, Mississippi (Bloom 12). During what is commonly considered his time of greatest artistic achievement, approximately a period of forty years , 1929 - 1942, he accomplished more than most writers have in his lifetime of writing novels (Bloom 11). Due of his dedication to his writing and the receiving of his ideas by readers from all over the world, he was presented the 1949 Nobel Prize for

As a child , Mr.Supten is turned away from an important home in Jefferson, the county seat, because he was not reflected as acceptable to enter the door. He is determined from this point forward to become “someone.” William Faulkner introduces Sutpen, a wealthy man, as a imperfect, dishonest, destroyed creator and dominant of Sutpens Hundred, the plantation he hacks out of the Yoknapatawpha County wilderness in the 1830's” ( Absalom 229). Supten’s plantation is sited a dozen miles from Jefferson (Absalom 230). Sutpen finds a wife from Haiti, but soon learns that she has evil in her veins. He dishonors her and their son, Charles Bon. He then takes a “white” wife from a suitable well known Jefferson family and begins to shape his legacy again. The dishonesty of Sutpen’s failure lies in the point that he cannot attain the project precisely because he is unable to disregard such human features as Charles Bon’s’ necessity for his father’s love and gratitude (Geismar 42). William Faulkner proves through the Sutpen family that the desire to achieve is the major evil from which other evils grow. Sutpen’s need to create a perfect order in the world, into which he will finally fit, is in the end, his