The Sound and the Fury Essay -- Sound Fury

The grueling and the irritation Chronology of DespairThree little boys agree wearily and fearfully as their sister shimmies quickly up a tree to peer through the window of a dilapidated Confederate farmhouse. Our attention focuses neither on her reaction to the festivities commencing in the house, nor on the risk of exposure suspended nervously in the dusky air as the petite image worms up the tree trunk. Sensing the distress apparent in the boys words and actions, our eyes rivet to the same thing that fills their faces with apprehensionthe gamey and muddied stain of filth firmly planted on the layer of the little girls underpants. This scene from William Faulkners The Sound and the Fury illustrates Faulkners incredible talent for storytelling that has enabled him to trap readers and critics in his spectrum of characters for decades. Weaving knifelike characters together with stories of despair and triumph, Faulkner produces a tapestry that blankets readers with his love/hat e relationship with the South. However, in his novel The Sound and the Fury, Faulkner employs a vastly different system of creation. This story unfolds as a clutter of chronological events told through the experiences, memories, and interpretations of terce brothers infatuated and obsessed with the actions and absence of their sister, Caddy. Consisting of a multitude of colors situated out by Caddys actions and her brothers reactions, Faulkners true patchwork genius lies in the craftsmanship of his seam. Binding together multi-colored material created by similar experiences, Faulkners fix takes on a radically different, just about haphazard appearance. With each Compson brother producing a different type of stitching due to vastly different interpretations of their s... ...n Vase or Crucible of Race? modern Essays on The Sound and the Fury. Ed. Noel Polk. Cambridge Cambridge UP, 1993. 99-137. Milkweed. Random House Websters College Dictionary. 1996 ed. Millgate, Michael. The Sound and the Fury. Ed. David Minter. The Sound and the Fury. New York W.W. Norton, 1994. 297-310. Pouillon, Jean. Time and Destiny in Faulkner. Ed. Robert Penn Warren. Faulkner A Collection of deprecative Essays. Englewood Cliffs Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1966. 79-93. Ross, Stephen M. The Loud World of Quentin Compson. Ed. Andre Bleikasten. William Faulkners The Sound and the Fury A precise Casebook. New York Garland Pulishing, 1982. 101-114. Sartre, Jean-Paul. On The Sound and the Fury Time in the Work of Faulkner. Ed. Robert Penn Warren. Faulkner A Collection of Critical Essays. Englewood Cliffs Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1966. 87-93.