Prompt: Choose any narrating character from As I Lay Dying and analyze how Faulkner characterizes him or her throughout the novel. Focus on one character only, and be sure to include all aspects of characterization, such as dialogue, character’s thoughts and feelings, thoughts and feelings of other characters, and physical description, in your analysis. For your universal statement, please consider what purpose this character serves in the work to investigate and illuminate Faulkner’s thematic statement about human nature.