Teacher Guide

The Sound and the Fury Lesson Plan

Relationship to Other Books

All of William Faulkner's novels deal with similar themes and even recurring characters from The Sound and the Fury. That's especially true of Absalom, Absalom!, which not only features Quentin Compson and Shreve McKenzie as major characters but also explores the ideas of Southern trauma. Faulkner's novel Sanctuary deals with issues of gender and race, both of which come up in The Sound and the Fury.

Other modernist authors who play with perspective and consciousness include British writers Virginia Woolf, especially in Mrs. Dalloway, and James Joyce in Ulysses.

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