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As I Lay Dying Strengths And Weaknesses

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As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner was a story set in Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, and quite frankly, it was awful. It took me quite a long time to get through, because the plot was frustrating, I didn’t care about the characters, and the constant shifting between multiple people as narrator was really confusing. The story itself was well written, but I constantly had to check to see who was narrating, and it broke up the action. Furthermore, it took the family forever to get where they needed to be. So, while the may have been written, the overall plot was frustrating, long, and confusing. This work had many weaknesses, and I’m not even sure how the author could fix them. This piece had its strengths, but it had many more weaknesses

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