Representing Blacks in Faulkner's “The Sound and the Fury”

This study deals with William Faulkner's novel, The Sound and the Fury (1929). In the United States, no writer sounds more American than William Faulkner, who impresses the reader as being deeply rooted in his native land. Faulkner's favorite subject is the decline and moral disintegration of the South. The Sound and the Fury depicts how the Old Southern Order was, in Faulkner's words, "cursed" by slavery and bore the seeds of ruin in itself. Faulkner's work reflects a modern world beset by moral confusion