It is obvious that the writings of Faulkner have influenced McCarthy's work, and so it becomes evident that there will be many similarities between the two. Both authors use many run-on sentences resembling, possibly, a stream of thoughts similar to that of a person thinking. This creates an aura around their stories, forcing the reader to focus on the text, as its structure is most likely unfa

Although the two aforementioned examples show similarities between the two authors, there is one area in which the two diverge in their paths of writing. Faulkner and McCarthy vary the ways in which they use punctuation within their works. While both use the absence of punctuation, they differ to the extent of punctuation that is missing. Faulkner only omits punctuation when it is in the form of a contraction and rarely anywhere else to give the reader the sense that the narrator is actually speaking, which is a similar objective of the previously noted methods. An example is on page 153, "I dont remember touching the door at all..." In contrast to Faulkner, McCarthy uses punctuation much less and seems to try to blur the distinction between narrator, reader, and character. This is evident when John Grady Cole asks Rawlins on page 77, "What did you go and tell him that for? Said John Gra

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Approximate Word count = 604
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)