Liksom många andra av Faulkners berättelser utspelar boken sig i Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, som Faulkner kallade "mitt apokryfiska county", en fiktiv version av författarens hem, Lafayette County. ^ ”As I Lay Dying”.
As is many of Faulkner's works, the story is set in Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, which Faulkner referred to as "my apocryphal county", a fictional rendition of the writer's home of Lafayette County in the same state.WikiMatrix WikiMatrix