This novel is a great introduction to Yoknapatawpha County, the fictional county in Jefferson, Mississippi in which many of Faulkner’s novels and short stories take place.Ģ || Narrative structure. In an attempt to spread my love for this novel, here are seven reasons why you should read The Sound and the Fury:ġ || Yoknapatawpha County. This experience encapsulates why I love to reread books, especially ones as complex and intense as those that Faulkner writes. Now that I understood the basic plot, I could focus more on the characters, language, and structure of the novel. Rereading The Sound and the Fury magnified my appreciation of it tenfold.
Little did I know that day would come two years later as I was preparing for my Oxford tutorials. Gradually I came to realize and appreciate the brilliance of the novel and I promised myself that I would pick it up again someday. Why was Benjy also named Maury? Who were all of these different narrators? What happened to Quentin? And why were there suddenly two people named Quentin? We were fortunate enough to have a patient professor who answered these and countless other questions that we hurled at him. Needless to say, we were all quite confused in my Introduction to Literature class. William Faulkner’s classic novel The Sound and the Fury holds a special place in my heart as the first book I was ever assigned to read in college.
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