Myriad Perspectives, Multiple Reflections

This thesis intends to analyze the structural design of Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! from the novel's most prominent writing feature ?the using of multiple points of view. The integral structure of the novel mainly composes of several narrators' cooperating narration of a local legendary story from their different individual standpoints, different ideological background.Their retellings meanwhile added the reviews about the story's cause and effect from their limited third-person points of view. On surface their reviews are independent but among them there are connections, repetitions and also many contradictions and inconsistencies. In a larger sense this creation method shows the theory of Great Dialogue.Besides, the seemingly haphazard shifts of multiple points of view make some of the story plots have to be hung up during the narrative process. Their resolving process reflects the crafts of delayed revelation or withheld disclosing, attracting readers' interests to gradually explore the story's cause and effect.In addition, Faulkner's arrangement of the shift of points of view and narrative perspectives skillfully wove a balance structure, enabling the novel possess epic dimension from the design of title, structure, and thematic implication.Finally, the discussion of the same story's meaning from multiple points of view, myriad perspectives must bring multiple reflections. On the base of the several narrators' reflections of the story's character in the former chapters, the last chapter focuses on reflecting the historical meaning displayed on several major narrators from the multiple angles of the author, readers and the narrators themselves.