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This source references to the comparison between Victor and the monster. Thus the two are doppelgangers while they are also each others foils. They cannot survive without being near each other, and while they share many traits, one has the traits that the other lacks.

This source is interesting because it describes Ralph Ellison life and work, while also portraying the fact that his colleague, Richard Wright, was a foil to him. While Wrights character's were unrefined, hot-tempered, and uneducated, Invisible Man is the opposite. The article also talks about Ellison's efforts to maintain cultural identity and traditional black culture in America.

"Faulkner uses the experimental forms associated with modernism to depict the impact of the sociocultural era called modernity, and the processes of urbanization and industrialization known as modernization, on poor whites in the rural South. As I Lay Dying makes clear that Faulkner's rural modernism has not simply a geographic logic but also a sociopolitical significance. Rural modernism critiques the conflation of the urban and the modern, in part by revealing how the country is used as a foil against which urban modernity is defined"

This source examines the novel from the perspective of modernism in Faulkner's writing. It discusses how it is used and how it effects other themes. This brings a new perspective to the groups of themes.