Carl Rollyson is the author of The Life of William Faulkner, The Last Days of Sylvia Plath, and twelve other biographies.
For Faulkner, all of time existed as a moment, during which all could be changed: past, present, and future.
The stage set becomes, in effect, a metaphor for the way individuality has been crushed in the modern world.
Faulkner’s treatment of the past means much for the nature of our future.