The Social Corruption in William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury

Among his contemporary American novelists, William Faulkner (1897-1962) is considered one of the best who has dealt with the topic of the American Civil War (1861-1865) and its horrible economic and social consequences on the American South. Being a descendant of the American South, Faulkner has been able to notice the great gap the war made between the greatness of the agrarian pre-war American South and the corruption of the same society hereafter.