The sound and the fury

 I have been facing lot of problems. Reading Willian Faulkner's book. The book is called "The sound and the fury". 

In the introduction, author has mentioned that this book was very close to his heart and he will never be able to write another one like this, etc. etc.

But the style is very very strange. It is more like thoughts running through your mind. No structure, no logic, no cohesiveness.

I tried reading the book summary to understand who are all the people being mentioned in the book and who is the narrator. Then I also watched few minutes of the movie based on this book. 

Even then it is a difficult book to read. And it is not my excuse not to finish the book. I will certainly finish it. 

Candace, Benjamin, Quentin and Jason are the children of Compson family in a small town in Southern USA in 1910s. They are children of self centered, hypochondriac mother and alcoholic father. The black servant Dilsey raises these children. 

Caddy - Candace is promiscuous and becomes pregnant. Then she marries some other person to hide her "shame". But when Herald (I think) , her husband realizes the baby is not his, he abandons Caddy and daughter. 

Caroline Compson is angry that Caddy is bringing more shame to the family and she does not let her come to the house. But Caddy's daughter Quentin is brought to the house and raised there.

Quentin, the smart one is studying in Oxford. But he can't overcome his family's memories and their drama and he commits suicide.

After the death of Jason Compson- the father, Jason is the head of the family. He is almost cruel to his niece Quentin. He steals the money sent to her by her mother. He steals from his mother and abusive to Dilsey and her family. But as he is only working person in the family, they all keep quiet. Except for Quentin. She hates her uncle, hates living in this house where no one loves her. She misses her school, sells her books and roams around on the streets. 

And Benjamin is mentally challenged and both deaf and dumb. He has to be looked after like child, even at the age of 30.

Like many of his books, a sad tale of human shortcomings.