"The Sound and the Fury" Literary Criticism “Within this rigid world Caddy is at once the focus of order and the instrument of its destruction‚” (Bloom 20). Candace Compson‚ “Caddy”‚ is the central character of the novel even though none of the narration is seen through her eyes. In each of the three sections by her brothers she is the main subject. Caddy represents something different to everyone one of her brothers‚ but remains the center of their lives. “Faulkner was a pioneer in literary
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caddied at Dearborn Country Club. Jessica was the only female caddy at the country club. Jessica answered a number of questions for me over text. Most of the questions she was asked related to how her experience working as a caddy compared to mine. Since she was a woman working a predominately males job‚ the treatment she received‚ the physical stress she was put through‚ and her interest would all be different from mine or any other male caddies. The first series of questions Jessica answered were mostly
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and drawn out deterioration of their once dignified‚ well-respected family. Faulkner appears to have a specific perception of his characters and their relationships that he would like his readers to develop in reading the novel‚ specifically about Caddy as a central cause of the Compson family’s undoing. These intentions are apparent through the consecutive order he has placed each of the characters’ chapters in. Faulkner’s deliberate placement of his chapters in this novel is to allow his readers
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obsessions with their sister Caddy. To understand the sons’ obsessions‚ one must understand that the Compsons are an extremely dysfunctional family in constant turmoil. With an alcoholic father and a hypochondriac for a mother‚ the children of the Compson’s are inevitably neglected and left striving for the love and affection that they lacked from their parents. Benjy‚ the Compson’s mentally handicapped son‚ looks to Caddy as a surrogate mother. Quentin looks at Caddy as more of a lover than a sister
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Ben Boyd English 11H In his novel‚ The Sound and the Fury‚ William Faulkner employs a unique structural assembly to relay a compelling and complex plot to his readers. Faulkner often uses incoherent and irrational phrases to bring the reader into the minds of the characters. With a believable plot‚ convincing characterization and important literary devices‚ William Faulkner is able to bring into perspective a new structural form of writing which influences the significance of the content
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fragments from the first three sections of the novel in order to highlight some of these new literary devices. Each fragment represents the corresponding narrator point of view about the event that marked the beginnig of the decline of the Compson family-Caddy ’s virginity loss. The first fragment comes from the section "April 7th‚ 1928" where gradually we find out about the Compson tragedy. The narrator- Benjy a youngest son of the family‚ also a thirty-three year man afflicted by idiocy-has no concept
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THE SOUND AND THE FURY William Faulkner’s background influenced him to write the unconventional 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
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A Psychological View of Benjy ’s Mental Retardation Benjamin Compson‚ a character from The Sound and the Fury‚ is the youngest child of Jason and Caroline Compson who has round the clock supervision. His keepers say‚ "he been three years old thirty years" (Faulkner 17). Mental retardation is a condition that is associated with a person who develops slowly. "The label mentally retarded is applied when someone is significantly below average in general intellectual functioning (IQ less than 70)
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influence of Caddy on all her family members. Caddy as Faulkner’s symbol of the
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own existence as a whole. He is also not completely free. We have to have the will and the understanding of our own freedom before we can will for the freedom of others. In The Sound and the Fury‚ the past is what keeps this family from being free. Caddy becomes physically free when she leaves her life and home behind and runs away. She leaves her family stuck in the facticity of her disappearance though. They have no will to be free as they become trapped in the past‚ like mentioned before especially
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