... his creativity, and once declined to meet a delegation of distinguished foreign authors because "they'd want to talk about ideas. I'm a writer, not a literary man" (76). In writing The Sound and the Fury, Faulkner pays no attention to normal literary work. He often uses incoherent and irrational phrases to bring the reader into the minds of the characters. This background, together with a believable plot ... , convincing characterization and important literary devices enables William Faulkner in The Sound and the! Fury to deve! lop the theme of the regression of the family. The structure...

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• Grade Level: High School