We aim to answer the question of the relationship, rather than debt,
of Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying to some dramatic genres such as the Italian
Commedia dell’Arte, Ben Jonson’s comedy of humours and Sherwood
Anderson’s grotesques. To conclude finally that although there is
evidence of a certain amount of simplification and typification of the
characters on Faulkner’s hands they are nevertheless singular and individually
portrayed beings.
