285) Faulkner uses some common themes in most of his works including the aforementioned conflict. He frequently employed the literary devices of symbolism, foreshadowing, anti-narrative etc. To create desired atmosphere and to achieve maximum desired results. His style appears complex to many as Clifton Fadiman writes, "[Faulkner's method is] Anti-Narrative, a set of complex devices used to keep the story from being told... As if a child were to go to work on it with a pair of shears" but there is something truly intriguing about the way Faulkner's stories unfold. Nothing is given away too soon and while the atmosphere is conducive to unique possibilities, the very nature of those possibilities is never made obvious to keep the readers guessing till the very last line. The power of his narrative is hidden in its apparent incoherency as Kazin writes, "Perhaps the most elaborate, intermittently incoherent and ungrammatical, thunderous, polyphonic rhetoric in all American writing."

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2) Fadiman, Clifton. "Mississippi Frankenstein, the New Yorker, XIV, January 21, 1939

3) Kazin Alfred. "In the Shadow of the South's Last Stand," N.Y. Herald Tribune Books, February 20, 1938

4) RAY B. JR. WEST, ATMOSPHERE and THEME in FAULKNER'S "A ROSE for EMILY" Perspective, Summer, 1949, pp. 239-245.

5) Faulkner, William. "The Bear." Go Down, Moses. London: Penguin Books, 1960.

6) Faulkner, William. "Barn Burning." Harper's Magazine, June 1939, reprinted in collected Stories, New York: Random House, 1950.

7) Irving Malin, William Faulkner: An…