On Faulkner Novel Growth

William Faulkner's novels indicate that the author focuses on the topic of personal initiation. Three types of characters in novels succeed in self-growth with different ways, further more, their initiation implicate the writer's worrying about the varying degrees of degeneration of social morality and common humanity during the changes of the time. Meanwhile, the themes which Faulkner presents firmly extend the tradition in American literature and vividly reveal the spirits of the characteristics of the time.Quentin, Rosa, Sutpen represent three different types of initiating figures in Faulkner's novels. First, the writer prominently figures the process that moral looseness causing the lost of idealism, and this class of character becomes a result of developing history while they act against it; the second kind of figures fails to resist their ideals when they realized the immorality of the old order in the South; the last group of person dissimilate their sense of honor to the ambitious which result in a disastrous defeat finally.All the events of initiation in Faulkner's novels are not isolated. These events have a compact relation with the others and society. It is firstly inflected in the search of fit parents. Secondly, there are two departures during their initiations which are impartibly with love. Lastly, their self-initiation is also a metaphor to the change of time and society. This metaphor is not only pointed to the downfall of old south, but also pointed to the modern society with high-speed developing.The description of initiation events in Faulkner's novels is not an isolated event, too. In the tradition of American novel, there has been Horthon, Melville, Mark Twain, and Sherwood Anderson whose novels have already involved this theme before Faulkner. And among Faulkner's peers, although Ernest Hemingway's novels showed great differences from Faulkner's in all directions, they had a same value pursuit at last. All these differences and their common value pursuit can be mostly observed in the theme of initiation of their novels.