![]() ![]() It’s mostly focused on the four Compson siblings: Benjy, Quentin, Jason, and Caddy.Įach of its four sections is narrated by a different family member: the first by the mentally disabled Benjy the second by Quentin, a Harvard student who’s essentially forsaken his family by this point the third by Jason, an objectively despicable human being who resents his role as family patriarch and emotionally abuses his mother, brother, and niece and the fourth by Dilsey, the family’s black cook/housekeeper who observes the dysfunction. The story follows the extremely dysfunctional Compson family of Jefferson, Mississippi (part of Faulkner’s fictional Yoknapatawpha County, where many of his stories are set). Befitting a Faulkner work, it’s both mildly incomprehensible and incredibly tragic. ![]() The Sound and the Fury (1929) is one of William Faulkner’s most famous novels. ![]()
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