He would learn from his mistakes and improve, but there was one old writer he admired, John Conrad. Conrad layered his stories by putting stories within stories. An example of Conrad doing this is Heart of Darkness. In Conrad's book Victory, he tells the story through the narrator but not knowing the protagonist, this technique also made William very interested. He even "borrowed" some of these writing styles for himself so that his southern stories would be better (Web "William"). William ended his writing career successfully. In January 1962, he won the gold medal for fiction awarded by Eudora Welty. Finally, he won the Pulitzer Prize again in 1962 for his last novel The Reivers (Padgett Web). I don't think William was greatly affected by the Great Depression in his story The Sound and the Fury. His story was about the South and all the reasons they suffered. The Depression period did not affect most of his writings. The person might say yes to them now because they know that William Faulkner was a well-known poet and novelist. His troubled and talented journey, his period of the Great Depression, his poetry and his novels shaped him as a writer, making him a memorable character.