Time of As I Lay Dying

One of the main realities of human existence is the constant, unceasing passage of time. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner explores this reality of time in many new and unexpected ways as he tells the tragic tail of the Compson family. The Compsons are an old Southern aristocratic family to whom time has not been kind. Years of degeneration mainly stemming from slavery have brought them to the brink of destruction. Most …

…with stopping time and returning to the way things were that he literally destroyed himself. Faulkner is trying to warn those who wish to return to the “good old days” that they were a time that should not be praised and dreamed of but rather that they are times that should be scorned and put behind us; because if we try to return to the past, we will be destroying ourselves just as Quentin did.