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The Sound and the Fury Study Guide

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by William Faulkner
About 105 pages (31,506 words)
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The Sound and the Fury is a novel in four parts, set in a fictional county in Mississippi and depicting the decline of a dysfunctional Southern family: alcoholic father Jason Compson, self-centered and self-pitying mother Caroline Bascomb Compson, and their four children.

Jason Compson is a caring father, while Caroline is too self-absorbed to have any time for her children. She sees her youngest son's affliction as a curse on the family, and when he is five years old changes his name from Maury to Benjamin, believing that this will cure him.

Her brother Maury is a poor businessman and a weak character that makes unsuccessful investments, usually with money he borrows from other people, including his sister, whom he panders to in order to be able to get money from her. He has an affair.....

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