The Sound of the Fury was, well I don’t know exactly what it is. The Sound of the Fury was without a doubt the hardest book that I ever read before in my life. I think it was exactly what it was titled. It was a fool’s tale about nothing. We reached all the way to the end to find out that it was simply just that.
I don’t see the purpose for Faulkner to write this book. There was no moral lesson in it. For those of us lucky enough to keep the book straight most of us are happy that it’s over but have no clue why we read it. I personally thought it was a waste of time and energy but that is just me.
The good part of this is that we got to add to our list of canonical themes in each book. Things such as inappropriate love, loving and losing, love of materials over people, and so on.
The ending was really quite crazy. We found out that Benjy was OCD. We found that Quentin could not take anymore of Jason’s nonsense. She took off with Jason’s money. Caroline we learned is a self righteous self victimized character who we have all had enough of. Something in me tells me that Benjy was ironically the only normal person in the story other than Dilsey. Benjy was free from fault.
I just wish I could say I had an over all reason for reading this book. It’s driving me absolutely crazy.
