Faulkner’s Relationship with his Daughter in the Film, William Faulkner

Faulkners Relationship with his Daughter in the Film, William Faulkner A Life on PaperWilliam Faulkner A Life on Paper presents Faulkner as a struggling writer, start out, and human being. He was moody, a periodic alcoholic, often in debt, impact in manner, and seemingly unable to make and retain significant relationships. Yet despite his apparent failings as a man (or perhaps because of them), Faulkner is perhaps the roughly successful and influential American literary artist of the 20th-century. Faulkner paved the way for many women writers to take up their pens and continue his literary quest into humankinds psyche and the truth of our existence. His fathering of the many writers we will be reading this semester was a significant one however, I am unsure if Jill Faulkner Sommers is able to forgive her father for his apparent neglect of fathering his true daughter.It is a commonly supposed that geniuses are able to produce their masterpieces because they are geniuses - because t hey do not act according to the universal social expectations of average human beings. They ...