It is not difficult to find the desirous male gaze observing the female body in the universe of William Faulkner. The study on the relation between male gaze and female body will shed light on Faulkner`s obscure view regarding women. The body within the dominant Western intellectual tradition seems to have been regarded as the site of unruly passions that might disrupt the pursuit of truth. Also, the identification of women with the body is a familiar idea. While the eye or gaze is deeply related with the mind and spirit, body or touching is constantly associated with the feminine. What has mattered to feminism is the cultural take-up of the mind/body split, and the enduring association of the devalued term with the feminine. Feminists such as Irigaray insist that rather the multiplicity and fluidity of the female body can subvert male discourse and patriarchal structure. The male-subject / female-object dichotomy relatively outstands in Faulkner`s early period but gradually female characters connected with running water or blood flow throughout the texts. The agonizing faun, a recurring autobiographic figure in Faulkner`s poems, just watches the attractive body of the nymph without the fulfillment of his desire. Also, this pattern is repeated in Faulkner`s early novels through the agonizing male characters observing the `epicene` girls. But different from these early faun-like characters, many voyeurs of Faulkner - Quentin Compson, Horace Benbow, Darl Bundren etc. - do not accord with the author himself. Faulkner reveals that their views on women have serious problems and these flaws result from Southern patriarchy. Moreover, Faulkner sometimes succeeds in creating female subjects who, in powerful and creative ways, disrupt patriarchal structures. Addie in As 1 Lay Dying and Charlotte in The Wild Palms are powerful and ubiquitous presences throughout the texts. At the same time, enormous flooding is so dominant that flooding and femininity, we presume, may merge in both works. Flooding deeply related to the fluidity of female body or female desire has in itself the subversive power to exceed boundaries of patriarchal order and Western culture based on the superiority of the mind and logic. Faulkner`s male gaze as a writer gains maturity to the extent of melting totally into the fluidity of the female subjects.