Boomdaddy back here for the last time! I just finished reading the last chapter, narrated by Dilsey in a third person narrative that almost seems to resemble Faulkner as the narrator himself. It is the easiest chapter to understand by far in the novel because it is the most straightforward and impartial of all the chapters. Dilsey merely relays the events to the reader in a very coherent way.

After finishing The Sound and the Fury, I realize now that the coherence of the chapters seems to have a deeper meaning within the novel. Each chapter progressively gets easier to read and understand. This shows that the complications within the Compson family are beginning to clear up. Miss Quentin leaves her abusive household and claims the money from her mother, Caddy, that Jason had been hoarding for himself.

The narratives of each chapter also pose a cycle for the Compson family in the novel, starting with Benjy and ending Benjy. Benjy seems to finally calm down at the end of the novel, showing the cycle idea that the story starts in turmoil with Benjy but ends in serenity with Benjy. This idea is also reinforced by the fact that it is Easter Sunday in the novel, the day of Jesus Christ's resurrection or rebirth.

Upon finishing the book, the Macbeth quote, "[life] is a tale told by an idiot, signifying nothing", makes much more sense. Each of the Compsons can be compared to the idiot, especially the narrators, because they tell the tale. However, Caddy, seems to be central to the Compsons idiocy as each of the first three narrators obsesses over her in some way or another, causing their insanity.

This shows the meaning of the novel as well. The Compson family resolves some of its problems but they all "signify nothing" as if to show that our problems are quite meaningless in the whole aspect of life itself.

Boomdaddy out!