Motifs In As I Lay Dying

Motifs and themes in a novel are very important. Motifs are considered literary devices that can help inform the readers understanding and development of the text’s major themes. In As I Lay Dying, one of the biggest motifs is the interior monologues for each character. Faulkner wrote this novel in a series of stream of consciousness monologues. That mean that everything each character was thinking is presented without being organized and processed as a narrative. This literary device analyzes character psychology and places it as a main concern for the story rather than a traditional narrative style novel. By implementing interior monologues within the novel, it forces the reader to really pay attention to what each character is sharing. Also,