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This paper aims to examine the narratives of Joe, Hightower and Lena. and identify the aesthetics of multiple narratives. Faulkner’s Light in August seems to be a novel that shows how unified vision of life is created through a collaborative effort of narrators as modernists often do. However, what Faulkner shows us in the novel is not to synthesize three narratives but to create multidimensional themes simultaneously through aesthetics of multiple narratives. Joe’s urgent problem lies in the loss of identity. The problem of whether he is a white or black is the crisis of his identity. He defies community order to find out his identity by means of violence. His violence drives him to tragic death. Hightower lives a stopped life. He is obsessed with the idea of the grandfather. He has no real concern or interest other than being present at the window of his study, hearing the horses of troop galloping through the town. Lena lives a moving life. She is a woman of light who is contrast with Joe. Actually, she is like something moving forever as life goes on. Finally, we can say that Faulkner simultaneously creates three human stories through multiple narratives.