The Sound and the Fury | Themes
The final scenes of The Sound and the Fury are related by an omniscient narrator. If the whole book had been structured the same way, the novel might be less challenging—and less interesting. Instead, readers must contend with three unreliable narrators in the novel's first three sections: Benjy, an idiot; Quentin, a suicide; and Jason, superficially sane but vicious and heartless. All three narrations feature interior monologues, which, according to literary scholar Robert Humphrey, represent the psychic content and processes of character partly or entirely unuttered, just as...
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