Abstract :
William Faulkner is a Nobel Laureate with his literary reputation for novels, short stories and
screenplays. He created his characters based on factors such as history, family, race, class,
gender relations of American South. William Faulkner used the narrative style, the stream-ofconsciousness that is well-known for his experiments. Stream of consciousness is a phrase coined
by William James in his Principles of Psychology (1890) to describe the narrative methods. Faulkner
has used the literary technique called ‘Stream of Consciousness’ to explore and expose the
unspoken thoughts of his characters. He used it to the extreme to give the readers the best fiction
of his times.
Keyword :
Literary Technique, Narrative Style, Stream-Of-Consciousness