The End of The Sound and the Fury

The final section of Sound and the Fury is narrated from a third person perspective which focuses mainly on Dilsey, the Compson’s female Black servant, who provides a final glimpse at the Compson family. It is significant that the final section is not narrated in first person by a member of the Compson family because the reader is slowly withdrawing from the crazy Compson minds and entering a nonbiased perspective. Through the third person narration, it is clear that Dilsey is the last remaining sane person and loving caretaker of Benjy living with the Compsons. She is willing to take him with her to church on Easter because she believes he, like anyone else, is loved by God. In a sense, the story ends after going full circle because first Miss Quentin, (like her mother Caddy) has left the Compson house and the final scene shows the fragile happiness of Benjy. If any slight change is made in Benjy’s routine, he becomes very upset and sad. When Luster drives a different way to the cemetery, everything becomes out of order for Benjy. By closing the scene with the carriage turning around and Benjy calming down again, closure is established in the sense that although all the characters are living their lives in a miserable manner, they have a system and for them it provides order.
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