This has *got* to be a joke.

If it’s not….do your own homework!!

It’s a difficult book for a number of reasons. Here’s a clue: There are 2 people named Quentin.

If that doesn’t help, try this link: http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/soundfury/summary.html

First major novel of William Faulkner, published in 1929. Set in Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha County, Miss., in the early 20th century, the novel describes the decay and fall of the aristocratic Compson family, and, implicitly, of an entire social order, from our different points of view. The first three sections are presented from the perspectives of the three Compson sons: Benjy, an “idiot”; Quentin, a suicidal Harvard freshman; and Jason, the eldest. Each section focuses primarily on a sister who has married and left home. The fourth section comments on the other three as the Compsons’s black servants, whose chief virtue is their endurance, reveal the family’s moral decline. In this novel, Faulkner for the first time incorporated such challenging stylistic techniques as interior monologues and stream-of-consciousness narrative.

Websites about the work

Random House’s Reading Group Center: About The Sound and the Fury

University of Virginia Library: William Faulkner Collections

William Faulkner wrote ‘The Sound and the Fury’, and managed to get it published despite the confusing dialect.

Now people get assigned to read it during the summer and are forced to write summaries of it.

That’s 37 words.

Include your full name, and you are up to 40.