1、The Sound and the Fury William Faulkner Born in 1870 in New Albany,Mississippi.Grew up listening to the stories of American South.Wrote stories in adolescence.Won Nobel Prize for Literature in 1949.Died in 1962.Famous as a novelist and short story writer.Best known works include The Sound and the Fu
2、ry,As I Lay Dying,and short stories “A Rose for Emily.”Known for his experimental style in fiction.It is about Benjys memories,including past and present.Luster is outside with Benjy on his birthday,at which he turns 33 years old.Benjys mind wanders to the things that has happened.For example,he rem
3、embers crawling through the fence with his sister Caddy,coming out to meet Caddy back from school.Benjy also remembers being taken to his fathers cemetery.The servant Dilsey talks to his mother about who is driving the carriage.Setting:Time:April,7,1928.Benjys 33-year-old birthday Place:Yoknapatawph
4、a county,Mississippi.First person point of view:Benjys perspective that does not think or analyze incidents like people usually do.Readers often have to put things together to understand what is going on.Benjy,himself being an idiot,approaches the world more from a primitive way as a small child fee
5、ls.This point of view drives readers to feel and sense Benjys surroundings.discoloration Because of Benjys innocence,some critics think Benjy is the moral standard,measuring people against his purity and innocence.Benjy:foolish,ignorant because of his defect.more feeling than thinking.simple,unsophi
6、sticated.wanting warm gestures and gentle words.Caddy:gentle and caring.acting like a mother to Benjy.the only one in the family able to communicate with Benjy.Keys to the Questions Present:April 7,1928.Luster takes Benjy out and looks for a coin that Luster has lost somewhere.Past:Benjys childhood
7、and adolescent periods.Benjys mind shifts between several things:He and Caddy craws through the fence to deliver a letter for uncle Maury.Versh takes him out to meet his sister back from school.His mother takes them to visit his fathers grave.Some key words like“Caddie.”Memories in the past,where hi
8、s sister is gentle and takes good care of him.Mother is pessmistic and nagging.Caddy is more gentle and caring.Disley takes responsibility and puts up with mothers nagging.Luster is impatient and cares more about his lost money.Yes.It sets up contrast between the impatient and the patient,gentle,and caring.Benjys innocence as a means to reveal mans selfishness.Benjys wanting of loving gesture as a means to reveal the sad loss of a loving Caddy.Benjys inability to grow out of childhood represents the futility of childhood dreams.The End
