![]() In this way Faulkner is both telling the story and offering a meditation on the failure of language to truly capture life. The tortured stream of consciousness of sections like Quentin’s creates the feeling of struggle, of trying to work through memory and suffering through thoughts and words. Narration, therefore, in The Sound and the Fury does not move from the Symbolic to the Real to unveil the kernel of Benjys cryptic enunciation as would have. Different points of view, perspectives of time and memory, and narrative styles are needed to properly tell the story of The Sound and the Fury, but even then they can only hint at the truths Faulkner is trying to express. While the writing is original and beautiful, the style and use of multiple narrators actually seems to point to the failure of language, especially in its ability to capture the truth of an emotion or event. ![]() Within the plot itself, repeated phrases and memories are important to each character, like Caddy’s name to Benjy. The winding sentences and stream-of-consciousness style mirror the struggles of the narrators as they try to make sense of a past that seems as real as the present. ![]() Each section of the book is told in a different narrative style, where the writing itself blends with the themes and stories it describes: Benjy’s section is muddled and subjective, while Jason’s is clear but brutal. Faulkner presents the degradation, decay, violence and death that have replaced courage, pride, love and honor in the Compson family. Faulkner’s innovative and often confusing language is the most unique part of The Sound and the Fury. ![]()
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