1. Clocks and watches

2. Animals

3. Setting

Symbolism

Clocks &

Watches

“…there is only the present moment, in which I include both the past and the future, and that is eternity.” – William Faulkner

Animals

Setting (Yoknapatawapha County)

Multiple narratorsAs I Lay Dying – 15 The Sound and the Fury – 4

Provides different perspectives of the same eventGives a better view of the individual characters

Point of View

• Third Person Omniscient• Sanctuary

Stream-of-Consciousness

Benjy as a Narrator

Present day understanding of events

Memories triggered from past

Stream-of-Consciousness

Stream of consciousness

Lack of punctuation establishes tone

Distinguishes between characters

Syntax

Direct characterizationPopeye from Sanctuary

Dark, muddy, bloodless, depthless

Indirect characterizationMultiple narrators

Characterization

TEMPLE DRAKE

DEWEY DELL

CADDY COMPSON

Women in Faulkner’s Work

- Promiscous- Victims- Mainly portrayed through men’s reactions to them