Faulkner was able to reconcile the wide disparity between

the small-framed, despised outcast who peered back at

him through a looking glass and the courageous Colonel
Sartoris of his imagination- the man he thought he could
be- through his novels. Life appears to have been a never-
ending battle against Faulkner's worries of inferiority.
While all writers must, metaphorically speaking, slaughter
their literary progenitors in order to produce something
substantial and original, Faulkner's ambivalence and
anxiety were amplified because his "Literary Giant" was
his own grandfather.
The Snopes Trilogy, which consists of three works by
William Faulkner, immerses the reader in the deepest,
darkest recesses of the human psyche. The complexity of
these novels immediately dispelled any preconceived
preconceptions I had about Faulkner and his writings. His
novels no longer appeared to be simple stories of white
trash living in the fake Yoknapatawpha County of the
deep South. When viewed closely, the Snopes family's
supposedly redneck, simple-minded characters expose all
the greed, deceit, and intelligence in the human heart and
intellect. The way the Snopes family lives, the way it
survives, forces the reader to consider the line between
survival and stealing, between need and evil.