Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner: 9. Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury, Part IV

Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner (AMST 246) Professor Wai Chee Dimock closes her reading of The Sound and the Fury by reading section four — the section related by an omniscient narrator — through Luster and Dilsey, the two black characters whose personal and racial histories are woven into the history of the Compson family. Luster and Dilsey’s centrality to the final section of the novel, particularly their interactions with the Reverent Shegog on Easter Sunday, transform The Sound and the Fury into a