The Cemetary and Loss in Faulkner’s The Sound and Fury Essay -- Faulkn

The Cemetary and Loss in Faulkners The salubrious and FuryOn the sixth page of the novel The Sound and The Fury, Carolean Compson informs her son Jason that she and her other son Benjy are going to the cemetery. The sense of sack that runs through much of Faulkners work, especially The Sound and The Fury, can be ground in the quiet, black-and-white world of the dead. In a cemetery virtuoso is reminded of lives lost and lost lives. Faulkner honors both in his novel. The story reveals a multilayered cacophony of loss. The trees and the grave stones in the Laurel Grove cemetery have been or so for a long time. So has the Compson family. Yet, I get the impression construe The Sound and The Fury that time is running out for Faulkners fictional dysfunctional family. By the end of the story the...