Style of Faulkner

In William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying, Faulkner's style is easily detectable. He uses the style of stream of consciousness. This stylistic technique allows for the thoughts and ideas of each character to be read by the reader, thus allowing for a better comprehension of the characters as a whole. However; this form of writing can be very misleading for the readers because rather than following a plot, the storyline moves all over the place following the train of the thought of these characters. Faulkner imposes this technique not to confuse the readers, but to allow them to understand the inner workings of the each character's mind and allow them to understand what was happening through the perspective of each character. In Faulkner's book, it seems as though the younger Bundren family members' sections of the book are harder to follow. The storyline becomes more abstract and harder to piece together, as opposed to Darl's, the oldest of the Bundren children, sections.