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The Sound and the Fury: A Study in Perspective

1954; Cambridge University Press; Volume: 69; Issue: 5 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1632/459766

1938-1530

Olga W. Vickery,

Narrative Theory and Analysis

The sound and the Fury was the first of Faulkner's novels to make the question of form and technique an unavoidable critical issue. In any discussion of its structure the controlling assumption should be that there are plausible reasons for the particular arrangement of the four sections and for the use of the stream of consciousness technique in the first three and not in the fourth. Jean-Paul Sartre's comment that the moment the reader attempts to isolate the plot content “he notices that he is telling another story” indicates the need for such an assumption, not only for any light that may be thrown on The Sound and the Fury but for any insight that may emerge concerning Faulkner's method and achievement.