The birth of the modernist movement in American literature was the result of the social collapse following the First World War. The writers adopted a fragmented and disjointed writing style that rebelled against traditional literature. One such writer is William Faulkner, whose individual style is characterized by the use of "stream of consciousness" and writing from multiple points of view. World War I had a more profound effect on society than previous wars. With new deadly weapons, such as poison gas, the high number of casualties and the first occurrence of all-out war, they shocked the world, dividing people between the modern and the traditional. Traditional society has been demolished by the destruction of war. As with most literary movements, writers reflect the world through their writing. And even though America was not as affected by the war as Europe was, the modernist movement still made its way into American literature through European influences. Modernism made its way to America through American writers who lived in Europe, they were also known as expatriates. Writers such as Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, and Ernest Hemingway were considered the “high” modernists. These writers, living in Europe due to military service or other reasons, saw the direct consequences of the war and used different writing techniques to rebel against traditional society, as society had become anything but traditional. They began using techniques such as fragmented sentences, symbols, and images instead of long metaphors to present larger ideas. The idea of ​​“black and white” distinctions between ideas like good and evil no longer existed; it all depended on the individual's reasoning for the answer. The style of these expatriates spread to America, where the modernist writer W...... middle of paper ......ting. Faulkner also wrote from multiple points of view. As mentioned above, in As I Died, the novel is told from the points of view of fifteen characters. Hemingway, to use it again as a contrast, was writing from a point of view. This gives the reader an inside look at the psychology of multiple characters and shows the reader how everyone deals with death, like in As I Lay Dying, differently. Although not an expatriate writer, or even a writer who served abroad, Faulkner is one of the quintessential modernist writers. It is not his arguments that make him a modernist, as he did not write about the war or the 1920s (like Hemingway and Fizgerald), but it is his writing style that makes him a modernist writer. Fragmented and disjointed stories that jump across time and space have the style that distinguishes him as an American modernist author .