... over newly emerging race relations are displaced onto sexuality and a preoccupation with sexual and familial purity. Discuss. The Sound and the Fury is a brilliantly crafted modernistic masterpiece written by William Faulkner in the 1930's. It cleverly tells the story of the Compson family from Jackson, Mississippi in the early 1900's. The novel is divided into four sections and collectively narrated in ... her age and lack of mobility. Mrs. Compsons" only concern is the how her somewhat dysfunctional family is perceived by a society that she longs for acceptance in. Richard Moreland w...

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