jakewelch • read

07/04/2024 — 07/09/2024 – My second time reading Faulkner, and while I feel like it was a good novel, it wasn't my favorite. The chapter to chapter narrative switching was an interesting way to give perspective to the situations. I loved how Darl was considered to be the crazy one but had the most beautiful and loquacious prose. Vardamon the youngest and his strange child-like thoughts "my mother is a fish". I hated Anse, he was so pathetic and manipulative always acting like he was the victim and borrowing everything while acting like he didn't want to burden anyone. In general, the characters weren't as interesting as I would've liked nor was anyone very likeable. The entire story was pretty miserable, with everything going wrong all the time, back dropped by the stench of the rotting mother in her casket. I give this book a 4/5.