Introduction to Late Modern and Postwar Literature
Question 10 • WINGS PA - 26 Literature III B Jefferson-Oliver
Read the excerpt from William Faulkner's Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech.But I would like to do the same with the acclaim too, by using this moment as a pinnacle from which I might be listened to by the young men and women already dedicated to the same anguish and travail, among whom is already that one who will some day stand here where I am standing.Who is Faulkner addressing in his speech?
Answer
A
up-and-coming young writers
B
Alfred Bernhard Nobel
C
other writers of his generation
D
the Nobel Prize committee
Explanation
Faulkner says he hopes to be listened to by “young men and women already dedicated” to the difficult work of writing, including someone who may one day receive the same honor. This means he is addressing up-and-coming young writers, not Nobel himself or the committee.
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