novel The Sound and the Fury. One important influence on the story is

that Faulkner grew up in the South. The Economist magazine states that

the main source of his inspiration was the passionate history of the

American South, centered for him in the town of Oxford, Mississippi,

where he lived most of his life. Similarly, Faulkner turns Oxford

and its environs, "my own little postage stamp of native soil," into

Yoknapatawpha County, the mythical region in which he sets the novel

(76). In addition to setting, another influence on the story is Faulkner's

own family. He had three brothers, black servants, a mother whose family

was not as distinguished as her husband's, a father who drank a lot, and

a grandmother called Damuddy who died while he was young. In comparison,

the novel is told from the point of view of the three Compson brothers,

shows the black servant Dilsey as a main character, has Mrs.! Compson!

complain about how her family is beneath her husband's, portrays

Mr. Compson as a alcoholic, and names the children's grandmother Damuddy

who also dies while they are young. Perhaps the most important influence

does not care. In fact, she says she will tell their parents herself

something with a man that she was not supposed to do. All she had to do to

broken them. After she accepts his offer, though, he does not kill her

the water. Even when Jason threatens to tell on her, she tells him she

social laws, and he feels that Caddy should die also because she has

Compson can only lead to a futile life. Caddy's character represents the

deliver letters to Mrs. Patterson, a married woman he is having an

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