Critical realism in The Sound and the Fury

Abstract

Academic research on Faulkner mostly focuses on the stream-of-consciousness technique, but fewer people pay attention to the connection between his creation and critical realism. Faulkner has a strong focus on reality, which can be seen from the three aspects of the timeline arrangement, character’s characteristics, and dimensions of the family-social history in his novel The Sound and the Fury. Obviously，the author has inherited traditional critical realism.