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Disinterring Daddy: Family Linen's Reply to As I Lay Dying by Terrell L. Tebbetts Novelist Lee Smith has often acknowledged Faulkner's importance to her writing, alluding to him in her fiction and discussing him in her interviews. In particular, she mentions Faulkner's use of multiple points of view, his use of many characters with different voices to tell his stories (Arnold 14). It is not surprising, then, to see critics beginning to explore how Smith has used Faulkner, specifically how her work responds not only to his techniques but also to his characters and plots. On technique, for instance, Jeanne McDonald writes that it "was from novels like The Sound and the Fury and As I Lay Dying that Smith got the idea of multiple narrators" (180). On plot and character, one critic in particular, Susie Paul Johnson, has explored the striking connections between As I Lay Dying and Smith's 1985 novel Family Linen. She is especially compelling as she discusses the similarities in plot, with both novels set into motion by "the death of the mother" (45), and in character types, with Smith's Sybill Rife, for example, sharing traits with Faulkner's Darl Bundren (46). With such helpful
The Southern Literary Journal – University of North Carolina Press
Published: May 31, 2006
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