In the early twentieth century, after Reconstruction, the Deep South was a landscape of profound transformation and tumultuous change, marked by societal decay, loss, and an enduring search for meaning. William Faulkner's haunting modernist masterpiece The Sound and the Fury, set in Mississippi, portrays the decline of the once-aristocratic Compson family through the divergent fragmented lives of its siblings and servant: the mentally challenged son Benjy, the brooding rage of Quentin, the cynic