Eye of the Storm: William Faulkners Flags in the Dust, upholds William Faulkners artistic compromise for material necessity. It studies the effect of the editing on themes, imagery, plot structure, transitions, centers, openings, endings, characters and the socio-historical publication contexts of William Faulkners Flags in the Dust to draw delightfully startling conclusions. Faulkner allowed his agent to edit and significantly reduce his third novel, Flags in the Dust, published as Sartoris in 1929. Until his death, Faulkner never referred to his third novel as Sartoris, but as Flags,...