All the major characters are confronted with various degrees of unidentifiable disturbance and fright,which represent the intrinsic connection with Faulkner s time perspective.

• 作品中的主要登场人物都不同程度地遭遇到了莫名的不安和恐怖,而他们的这一命运特征恰恰是和贯穿这部小说的福克纳的时间观有着深刻的内在联系。