Question

How does As I Lay Dying most meet the definition of Modernist literature?

A. It uses a reliable narrator.
B. Its narrative is fragmented.
C. The theme celebrates the American Dream.
D.The characters are exaggerated and unrealistic.

Answer 1

Its narrative is fragmented.

Answer 2

B. Its narrative is fragmented.

Step-by-step explanation:

As I Lay Dying is a novel by American writer William Faulkner. He claimed to have written the novel in six weeks and did not change a single word. Published in 1930, Faulkner wrote it while working at a mill, and described it as a "tour-de-force." It was his fifth novel and is consistently ranked among the best literature novels of the twentieth century

The novel is known by the technique of narrative of flow of consciousness, with fragmented narration, several narrators and different lengths of chapter; in fact, the shortest chapter in the book consists of only five words, "My mother is a fish" .