Collected Stories of William Faulkner

What is the author's style in Collected Stories of William Faulkner by William Faulkner?

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Faulkner is very precise about the words he chooses when writing his short stories as well as the way in which he words his sentences and paragraphs. His goal seems to be to give the reader the exact image he wants them to have about the particular subject about which he is writing. The style in which Faulkner tells his stories also matches the subjects about which he writes. Faulkner varies his style of writing to encompass the proper grammar of a Southern gentleman to the country drawl of a hick from the mountains of Tennessee to the speech patterns of a Negro slave. Faulkner attempts in each instance to capture the accents and peculiar speech patterns of each individual group of people.