Social Pressure In Ulrike Nüssler's The Sound And The Fury

In the Sound and the Fury, the role of Mrs. Compson is perceived by the public as largely negative, one of the causes for the downfall of the aristocratic Compson family. However, Ulrike Nüssler’s scholarly article, published in William Faulkner: German Responses as the victim of Southern nobility, her behavior being the result of social pressures coming from her socioeconomic class. Nüssler’s argument is how Mrs. Compson’s frailty and hypochondria stem from the pressures put on her by the largely patriarchal and wealthy class that her family is part of. As a member of this class, Mrs. Compson really takes these values to heart and as Nüssler points out throughout his scholarly essay, she cannot escape it and falls victim to these pressures