Ameerika kirjandus alates I maailmasõjast kuni tänapäevani.
Faulkner expses the transformation of the land,
and the decay of great southern family. Values have been lost due to civil war, sex roles, race
roles, class roles-have been misconstrued new institutions have been created that are hostile to
the so called eternal verities-meaning general laws, truths. The result of all this, that
everything has been distorted, southerners find themselves off balance, and at war with
themselves. At war between the real and the ideal. There is also industiral revolution, he
called the results of industrialisation ,,the rape of the land". The tragedy of the town started
when the indians who naively imagined that the land was theres, allowed the white man to use
this land. The white man divided the land into squares and plots which are sold and bough for
the slaves in africa. The indians were driven away from the land. The indians refused to be
slaves, black men from africa were imported for slavery. Faulkner understands that they are
annaabi.ee 
