William Faulkner is one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century, renowned for his novels and tales about the south. His Old Man is a story about the heroism of a nameless convict who rescues a pregnant woman during a Mississippi flood and assists at the birth of her child, and how he, in the face of hardship, struggles, persists, finishes the painful process of self-defining, and returned to the penitentiary a changed person. This paper, by analyzing the story, tries to find out some of Faulkner’s thinking about human being as individuals and as social members, his concern that human values should be reconsti-tuted, his pride in the southern traditions and his love for the South. Meanwhile, a brief analysis of his narrative strategies is added which to a great extent is the reflection of his beliefs of the nature of time in writing.