Abstract:
The critique circles usually take the end of 1940s as the boundary and divide Faulkner’s creation into two phases. His novels of the early phase had undergone three important changes: from expression of destruction of traditional values to the effort in reconstructing a value world, from placing great hope on religious salvation to strengthening his own belief on humans, and from describing figures to describing people’s thoughts. In his late creation, Faulkner became more positive and optimistic, and tended to develop in the direction of ideological content and moral preaching.