The Sound and the Fury

What metaphors are used in The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner?

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Harvard becomes a metaphor for suffering. Quentin is sent to Harvard for his education. He does not want to go, but his mother wants him to go there. He is unhappy at Harvard because he is away from his family and his way of life. He ends up drowning himself in the Charles River near the campus.