“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”

This article on William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury is a clear, engaging guide to one of the twentieth century’s defining modernist novels. You’ll find a concise summary and plot overview, meet the key figures of the Compson family, revisit the book’s most powerful scenes, and see why the novel is considered both a literary challenge and a profound exploration of memory, guilt, love, and a family’s collapse.