The Sound and the Fury | Social Concerns
Unlike many of William Faulkner's novels, which deal with the politics of class, race, or man's responsibility to the land, The Sound and the Fury is the story of the tragic downfall of a once-prominent Southern family known as the Compsons. The narrative, which covers thirty years, is the American dream in reverse. In The Sound and the Fury the Compsons fall from genteel poverty, deliberately end their line, and lose their sense of civic mindedness. In this family, readers encounter hypochondria in one parent and alcoholism in another. In the children, we are confronted...
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