威廉·福克纳和厄纳斯特·海明威同样被认为是美国二十世纪的第一流作家。和罗伯特·弗罗斯特一样,福克纳也是一位作品中地方色彩很浓厚的作家,所写的不外乎是他最熟知的人和事,因为他的大半生都是在美国一个独特的、不起眼的地区度过的。福克纳的写作范围是美国南部,那里有着辛酸的奴隶史,有内战和遭受破坏毁灭的历史。福克纳在作品里臆造了酷似其密西西比州家乡的一个县和一个镇,并创造出代表不同社会阶层 William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway are equally regarded as first-rate writers in the United States in the twentieth century. Like Robert Frost, Faulkner is also a very rich writer in a work written by nothing less than his best known person and thing, because most of his life is a unique in the United States , Humble area spent. Faulkner’s writing is in the southern United States, where there is bitter history of slavery, civil war and history of destruction and destruction. Faulkner imagines a county and a town resembling his home state of Mississippi in his work and creates a representative of different social classes