Themes In Faulkner's The Sound And The Fury

Then Ben wailed again, hopeless and prolonged. It was nothing. Just sound. It might have been all time and injustice and sorrow become vocal for an instant by a conjunction of planets. (SF 255)
He [Reverend Shegog] was like a worn small rock whelmed by the successive waves of his voices. With this body he seemed to feed the voice . . . . And the congregation seemed to watch with its own eyes while the voice consumed him, . . . . (SF 261)
That he has a subjective viewpoint is reinforced by the narrator’s approach of searching for credible explanations through speculations, as witnessed in the above quotes.
In this manner, all through his section the narrator not only describes but also interprets what he observes. His narration then invariably reflects his opinion based on his individual impression. From this angle, the narrator’s “point of view is neither that of an all-seeing and all-knowing narrator nor that of a detached and strictly objective observer” (Bleikasten, The Most Splendid Failure: Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury 175). It is only less subjective than those of the Compson brothers. In this sense, Michael Millgate considers

Benjy suffers multiple losses, the foremost being the loss of Caddy. His unrelenting search for Caddy, after she has gone away, leads him on to molesting a school girl which culminates in his castration, signifying symbolic death. The loss of money causes a traumatic dent in Jason’s psyche. His search for lost money brings about his encounter with an old furious man who threatens to kill him. The loss of Caddy’s virginity makes inroads into Quentin’s sanity and strengthens his destructive impulse, and brings to climax his search for death. Luster’s never-ending search for the lost quarter further reinforces the pervasive search