During the Modernism movement, William Faulkner's novel, As I Lay Dying, had a great impact on the transition from urban to rural modernization by illustrating the contrast among city and country people in the South during the Great Depression. During the early 1930s, segregation in the South between city people and country people significantly affected the public's view of the Great Depression. At that time, city people did not respect country people. The narrative represents tension through its dialogue. As the Bundrens, a country family, were passing through a drug store, the clerk, Moseley said, "grumbled a minute against the screen door, as they do, and went in" (Faulkner, 198). Moseley's formulation immediately defines the classification between city and countryside. Referring to country people as “they” demonstrates the importance of geographic segregation in the South. The tension is also evident in many other cases. For example, Moseley says, “they have a hard life” (Faulkner, 202). By using "they" to once again talk about the Bundren and country people in general, the separation between city and country is represented. The references to the Bundren family also represent the separation between city and country by showing sympathy for the lifestyle the Bundren family must endure. A lack of respect from the townspeople eventually rubs off on the Bundren family when Darl Bundren says, “I don't know what I am. I don't know whether I am or not” (Faulkner, 80). Another reason Darl says this is his economic position. As I Dyed was published in 1930, just after the stock market crash of 1929 that led to the Great Depression. Since the story was published early in the economy...... midway through the paper ......if As I Lay Dying was published in 1930 and the stock market crashed in 1929, the Bundren family may have been related to other families struggling during the Great Depression that had just begun. So, the narrative had an impact on the movement because it portrayed a family going through the Great Depression before the public went through it. Furthermore, the Bundren family represented a family that managed to survive segregation and aggression between city and country. Just like the city versus the countryside, the narrative included the introduction of rural modernization, which diverged from urban modernization. These events are used in fiction to predict possible outcomes before outcomes occur outside of the novel. In conclusion, As I Lay Dying's depictions of events such as the Great Depression, segregation, and urban-to-rural modernization had a great impact on the Modernism movement..