"There Was a Queen" - William Faulkner

In William Faulkner’s, “There Was a Queen,” I found it really interesting that Faulkner had just about the same approach with this story as he has in all of his works. For instance in, “The Sound and the Fury,” Faulkner has the same remorse, dull, boring appeal with numerous run-on sentences and extremely lengthy diction. This type of writing is typical of William Faulkner and for most these examples define their reason for why they dislike Faulkner so much.

I personally enjoy Faulkner unnatural and different writing style. Yes it is hard to understand at times, but I enjoy the struggle in which I always find different areas of his work that could be interpreted several different ways. In Faulkner’s, “There Was a Queen,” he does not refer to women as having any real importance or significance other than being the main family member with any sense of religious hope. In his previous works just as his background suggests, Faulkner doesn’t really speak of women with the same manner as he does the men. By this of course I mean that he just seems to highlight the male characters in his stories more, similar with this time period. However during the reading of, “There Was a Queen,” I first thought that it might be on purpose that women are not highlighted in his text, to possibly prove a point. Already having stated that the only real significance women in his work serve is the religious, comfort-zone that they provide to their whole families, well Faulkner could simply be portraying these female characters with these limited roles to make his audience aware of how women are mistreated. This work comes about the same time as the 19th Amendment is passed an women’s suffrage is legal, therefore it could very well be that Faulkner is relaying his real thoughts about this subject through his work in which he knows he has a very widespread audience for and can having a very lasting impact upon.