I read the article "Meaningful Images in The Sound and the Fury" written by Eben Bass. It explains exactly what readers recognize; Faulkner's works are difficult reads because they are fragmented. The article focuses a lot on time which grabbed my interest because we have discussed this issue in class. Bass says, "The reader gets scarcely any sense of order from the idiot because "Benji's" time stopped at his three year mental age." He says in the second section Quentin "arrests time by committing suicide." Bass declares that the end of the story is understood more clearly because of the three different approaches that were presented. The aim of The Sound and the Fury Bass states, "is to show how the growth of certain images helps restore order, or time, to the novel."
Bass, Eden. Meaningful Images in The Sound and the Fury. Modern Language Notes. Dec. 1961. http://www.jstor.org/pss/3039942. 10-20-08
Eben Bass
Modern Language Notes, Vol. 76, No. 8 (Dec., 1961), pp. 728-731 (article consists of 4 pages)
Published by: The Johns Hopkins University Press
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Karen--I'll be interested to know if you think, during our discussion this coming week, whether the final section is, in fact, understood more clearly because of the disorder of the earlier sections.
Interesting article, I'd say, and I hope you're feeling better for good now.
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