sentences:  Several conflicts revolving around his return include the state of his engagement to his fiancée, the desire of the widow to break the engagement in order to marry the dying aviator herself, and the romantic intrigue surrounding the fiancée who had been less than faithful to the aviator in his absence.Soldier's Pay is one of only a few of the author's novels not set in his fictional Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi.William Faulkner was a friend of American writer Sherwood Anderson and a member of his literary circle in 1920s New Orleans.