The Sound and the Fury | Ideas For Group Discussions
Faulkner's Compsons have some relation to his own family and some to people he knew in Oxford as he was growing up. Book II "Childhood and Youth" in Joseph Blotner's Faulkner: A Biography gives a good view of Faulkner's childhood and adolescence. While all the Falkner children were boys, Sallie Murry and Estelle Oldham, who later became Faulkner's wife, frequently joined them in play. Reading Blotner might help readers assess how closely Faulkner worked with biographical materials in his fiction. C. Vann Woodward's The Burden of Southern History provides a good overview of...
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