Question

Which excerpt from Sullivan's article best reflects a tone that is critical toward Faulkner's authorial decisions?

A.
It may represent the closest American literature came to producing an analog for "Ulysses," which influenced it deeply — each in its way is a provincial Modernist novel about a young man trying to awaken from history — and like "Ulysses," it lives as a book more praised than read, or more esteemed than enjoyed.

B.
It may be crass for a white reader to claim that as significant, but a writer with Faulkner's sensitivity to verbal shading might have been better tuned to the ugliness of the word, and not a truth-revealing ugliness, but something more like gratuitousness, with an attending queasy sense of rhetorical power misused.

C.
It attempts something that had never been tried before in the art of fiction, and as far as I know has never been since, not in so pure a form — to dramatize historical consciousness itself, not just human lives but the forest of tim

Answer 1

B

That excerpt explicitly criticizes Faulkner's authorial choices — saying he "might have been better tuned" to certain words and accusing him of gratuitousness and misuse of rhetorical power.