Which of the following excerpts displays a forgiving tone toward Faulkner? A. And all would be well, or could be well, the gothic farce of Sutpen's dream redeemed with those words, remade into a hopeful or at least not-hope-denying human story.

B. This is a strange time to be alive in America, in that regard.

C. You could make a case that to have written this book and left out that most awful of southernisms would have constituted an act of falsity.

D. What Faulkner gains from this bundle of references is a suggestion of cycles, of something ongoing