A Faulkner Novel

In defining a Faulkner novel, or the stereotypes that surround a Faulkner novel, one inevitably describes what life was like in his time period. Everything was chaotic after the world war just as his writing and characterization seems to be at times. He also seems to focus on the negative or sorrowful themes in his novels which is probably what everyone was doing; grieving for the loss of a generation to war. Women were in an uneasy social status after the war just as they are uneasily characterized by Faulkner. Faulkner wrote what he knew; which was the world that he returned to. People can say that his novels are strange and not easy to relate to, but I think the novels are the closest that our society can come to in knowing what people of his time felt and suffered through.