William Faulkner is one of the most important writers after the First World War, and he presents the emotional world of the Bundrens in his famous novel As I Lay Dying in which the family members live in their private world without communicating with each other, which makes the incompleteness of their emotional world. Faulkner uses the situation in the Bundrens to stand for the general phenomenon existing in western countries after the First World War.