I don’t know what else to say about ‘The Sound and the Fury’… It was a very peculiar and sad book. One thing that struck me was at the end of our discussion, we talked about the influence of the title. Taken from Macbeth and one of the monologues… I do feel like it was alot of idiots making sounds over nothing. The entire story just seemed to be a family making nonsense over their every day life… I’m sure if anybody had their history written as controversally as this novel it would’ve been just as big a hit as ‘The Sound and the Fury.’ The exception is that it was written, and it chronicles the life of one family. Nothing extremely out of the ordinary happens, in America alot of families have to deal with the same issues that the Compson family had to deal with.
It is said that the Compson’s were put in these circumstances, but it wasn’t anything new that I haven’t read about before. Maybe because it was perhaps something that was new in the era that it was written, that it gained such a gathering. It is a good story, in a normal perspective. It was very much like an episode of Jerry Springer… and that’s sad, aint it?
April 30, 2007 at 6:08 am
I agree that this was a very dramatic, sad and controversial book. There was a whole lot going on, with brothers being in love with their sister, family problems etc, I agree it does sound like a episode of Jerry Springer.