William Faulkner Controversy

The Sound and the Fury, published in 1929 was William Faulkner’s fourth novel. The novel was thought by some to be Faulkner’s best effort as an author. There were those, on the other hand who found the form in which it was written hard to read and to comprehend. The novel is exceptional in that it conveys four different standpoints, all in the same book. Faulkner’s characters cover dates from 1898 to 1928, in no particular order throughout novel.

According to editors of biography.com, produced by A&E Network Television, William Faulkner was born in New Albany, Mississippi in 1897. He was born to parents Murry Falkner and Maud Butler Faulkner. His family moved to Oxford, Mississippi when he was a young five years of age. Faulkner enjoyed drawing before he began to write. He dropped out of school as a teenager and worked at his grandfather’s bank. He later met and started to date a young girl named Estelle Oldham, who ended up marrying another man. Later William started working at Winchester Repeating Arms Company, but his job was short lived. Even later, he accepted an invitation to train with the Royal Air Force in Canada. He earned his Cadet rank during his tenure in the Canadian military. After the war concluded he attended The

Benjy does not seem to speak as a man of his age, one may consider him to be challenged by reading the way his section is illustrated. He discusses random things in first person perspective from his birthday cake to occasions that happened to him and his siblings during their childhood. The section is very choppy and moves quickly from one subject to another. Time is hard to comprehend because of thoughts being recalled from the past to present. Faulker makes it known from Benjy’s encounter, all of the children are adults and Quentin, as well as Jason Compson III (the dad) are both