美国文学界历来不乏表现原罪的传统,从17世纪深受清教主义影响的宗教诗人迈克尔·威格尔斯沃思到乔纳森·爱再到19世纪的霍桑。而到了20世纪,社会环境的巨大改变,物欲横流与道德滑坡成为释放原罪的最好诱因。思想敏锐的福克纳正是 The American literary community has always had a tradition of representing sin. From the 17th century-influenced Puritanism-influenced religious poet Michael Wellsworth to Jonathan Love and then to Hawthorne in the 19th century. By the 20th century, however, the great changes in the social environment, materialism and moral decline became the best incentives to release original sin. Faulkner is keenly aware