The Fall of the Compson Family in Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury Es

The Fall of the Compson Family in Faulkners The endure and the FuryThat Faulkners title for his complicated The Sound and the Fury comes from Macbeth is common knowledge, and reading the novel only confirms Faulkners option as sound. Certainly there is an almost constant desire to decollate characters so as to quiet their almost constant bellering. The common alkali critics identify in the novel is the terrible fall of the Southern aristocracy, to date I cannot help but think that there was not, by that time, cold to fall, at least not in the case of the Compson family. Faulkners modernist simile supposedly speaks to the demise of the Old South, a decline encapsulated in the Compson familys trajectory of self-pity and tragedy. The implication is that this is a family well-entrenched in the aura of the Old South, which suffers a loss of prestige and valor in the dark days pursuance the literal and symbolic muddying of Caddys drawers. Indeed, with Quentins suicide, the last of the Compson family, in terms of its past, is come to an end but not because his death is furcate of a lo...