Generally speaking, novelists don’t introduce real memories, they write real or nearly real events, but these things have been rechecked in their memories and rearranged. Of course, their verb tenses are completely opposite. Faulkner wants to recreate the pure present tense, which is simply unprocessed and pure present tense is a thought, so Faulkner is more vague but richer than events.
When Faulkner plays with China, the concept and meaning are reversed, and the order adds confusing things and wrong things, so that everyone thinks that his advantage lies in his unbeaten. This novel directly and irrefutably disrupts this view. Faulkner does not intend to explain his characters, but shows us what they think. Their themes …