The sister of the Compson brothers, Caddy, is the central focus of all four sections, and therefore her character is considered the novel’s central figure. The fourth and final section is written from a third person perspective which has a largely religious flavor. In the novel, Faulkner explores the southern themes of tradition, progress, race, religion and despair through three first-person narratives from the three Compson brothers: one from the perspective of an idiot, the second from the perspective of a dead man, and the third through the perspective of the Compson’s bitter, greedy and sadistic last patriarch, Jason. The reader first meets the Compson family on the brink of complete destruction after years of ruin. In “The Sound and the Fury,” Faulkner leaves his characters without future it seems like they are living in the past instead of struggling for better destiny. The novel does not portray tales of civil war heroism but begins with the final effects of Confederate defeat on the Compson family. It is a story in which many of the southern themes are woven into an artful and compelling tale of an aristocratic agrarian family clinging to dusty old traditions handed down from pre-war generations. The Sound and the Fury took Faulkner three years to write first published in 1929.
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