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William Faulkner's chronicle of Yoknapatawpha county was gained a considerable prominence in the literary world. Based on the history of Mississippi, this chronicle presents a grand pageant of numerous distinct characters in their personal conflicts and social affairs. The romantic people of Faulkner's South generally indulged in a self-destroying dream of heroic courage, reckless gallantry, and glorious obstinancy even at times when their social moral obligations ought to have been changed in keeping with the rapid growth of the age of machines. This dream was largely influenced by a legendary aristocratic heritage. The Unvanquished is one of many novels and stories which portray this idea very distinctly. The Unvanquished also displays Faulkner's own apprehension and criticism about the Southerner's inclination to distort the past and creat a myth not based in fact. This study focuses on the apparent insistence of Faulkner in The Unvanquished that the dream based on the distorted myth is so deep in the minds of a representative southern aristocratic family that no isolated efforts or attempt of any conscientious individual can alter their beliefs and behaviors. The analysis of the various dreams and their dreamers in The Unvanquished also focues on the reasons for such dreams and their consequences on the different characters