The Unhealable Wounds

William Faulkner,a Nobel Literature prize winner,is one of the southern writers,committed to recording the south of America.His works are influential in the 20^th,and one of his beloved works,As I Lay Dying,has attracted worldwide critical attentions.Based on previous research,the thesis is intent on interpreting this novel in the light of trauma theory so as to investigate the author's sentiment about the land and people.And in the setting of the South of America,the thesis delves into the trauma of characters in the novel who are shaped by wounds in the matter of the bodily,mental and psychological aspects,and then finds its outcome.The thesis gets strait to the introduction that briefly generalizes the information of the author,the works,related literature reviews,and the theory connected to the argument.Then the chapter one expounds on the perspective towards the poor whose wounds in bodily sense is festering gradually,the bodily image of whom is totally collapsed.And the chapter two further takes step into the interpersonal relationships among characters in order to seek the wounds of their emotional abnormality.Furthermore chapter three investigates the minds of characters to demonstrate their psychological wounds being never recovered,which is unable for them to build up a complete self.Then the thesis draws a conclusion that Faulkner concentrates on the poor in the decayed southern land full of fragmentation and wounds so as to disclose the poor white's unhealable wounds,by depicting the traumatic experiences of poor white in the matter of the bodily wounds,the alienated relationship with others and the distorted psychology.