The Snopes Trilogy makes an artistic investigation into the identity transformation of Southern Americans of the Southern transitional period.It describes two kinds of people who undergo contrastive identity transformation,one with Flem Snopes and some other Snopeses as representatives,another with Ratliff and Wall as representatives.This thesis,through a-nalysis of the fundamental differences between these two kinds of people and their respective cultural origins, shows that Faulkner actively interferes with and directs the identity choice of his contemporary Southerners,and that Faulkner doe...
