The Sound and the Fury

William Faulkner

The decline of the Compson family in Mississippi is narrated four times, once each by the intellectually disabled Benjy, the suicidal Quentin, the bitter Jason, and an omniscient narrator observing the servant Dilsey. Faulkner's modernist masterpiece has been challenged in school districts for its sexual content, racial slurs, and its portrayal of mental disability.