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Falkner: Motifs In The Sound And The Fury
Falkner uses many motifs in The Sound and the Fury. One that he uses is shadows. Shadow are mentioned all throughout Quentin’s section, June Second 1910, and in some of Benjy’s section, April Seventh 1928. In Quentin’s section, it says, “The shadow hadn’t quite cleared the stoop. I stopped inside the door, watching the shadow move. It moved almost perceptibly creeping back inside the door.”(The Sound and the Fury 81) Here he is talking about the shadows that he sees when he steps outside his door, after he has written two letters, one to his father and another to a friend, stating what he’s about to do, which then brings up a memory about Caddy’s wedding. Most of the time, the shadows imply that the present state of the Compson family is
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