Final Post

The Sound and the Fury ends with no clear ending. Benjy does not cure his mental disease, the carriage does not reach its final destination and Quentin commits suicide. Somebody steals Jason money and he tries to look for it. Much like throughout the story, the mother never truly learns to truly love her children by the end of the story. This story takes place between 2-4 days but the story travels through time through the memories of the characters. This shows how incomplete the story is. The resurrection never takes place. 

Macbeth's quote "life is a tale told by an idiot, signifying nothing" means that Faulke sees nothing significant in this story. At the end of the story, the Compsons are ultimately defeated. It means that this story is ultimately written for entertainment purposes. So why were these different perspectives chosen to narrate this story? It was to show how connected this family truly was despite all their differences. The thing that brought this family together was Caddy. Jason and the mother both hated her while Benjy and Quentin loved her. The 4 different narrators are used by Faulkner to ultimately show that the downfall of the Conpson family ultimately aspired to nothing. This can be reflective of Faulkner's perspective of life and that it ultimately life is meaningless.