Text 1: Critic Lee argues that William Faulkner's fragmented narrative technique reflects the fractured consciousness of the post-Civil War South. By forcing readers to assemble events from multiple unreliable perspectives, Faulkner enacts the difficulty of confronting the region's traumatic past.
Text 2: Critic Park accepts Lee's regional reading but suggests that Faulkner's technique resonates beyond the South. Modernist fragmentation, she argues, was a transatlantic response to a wider twentieth-century crisis: war, urbanization, the collapse of inherited frameworks. Faulkner's South is one local instance of a much broader literary movement.
Both authors would most likely agree that
- A
Faulkner is a minor regional writer.
- B
Faulkner's technique is unique and unconnected to other writers.
- Ccheck_circle
Faulkner's fragmentation reflects historical conditions.
- D
Faulkner's work is straightforwardly chronological.
Explanation
Both connect Faulkner's technique to historical conditions; they differ on which conditions matter most. A is shared. B, C, and D contradict at least one critic.