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inspiration for the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi. These locales became the setting for a number of his works. Faulkner’s “Yoknapatawpha novels” include The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, Light in August, Absalom, Absalom! The Hamlet, and Go Down, Moses (Li Wenjun, 2) . Faulkner was particularly interested in the decline of the South after the Civil War. Many of his novels explored the deterioration of the Southern aristocracy after the destruction of its wealth and way of life during the Civil War and Reconstruction. Faulkner populated Yoknapatawpha County with the skeletons of old mansions and the ghosts of great men, patriarchs and generals from the past whose aristocratic families fail to live up to their historical greatness. Beneath the shadow of past grandeur, these families attempt to cling to old Southern values, codes, and myths that are corrupted and out of place in the reality of the modern world. The families in Faulkner’s novels are rife with failed sons, disgraced daughters, and smoldering resentments between whites and blacks in the aftermath of African-American slavery (Gao wei, 129) . Faulkner’s reputation as one of the greatest novelists of the twentieth century was largely due to his highly experimental style. Faulkner was a pioneer in literary modernism, dramatically diverging from the forms and structures traditionally used in novels before his time. Faulkner often employs stream of consciousness narrative, discards any notion of chronological order, uses multiple narrators, shifts between the present and past tense, and tends toward impossibly long and complex sentences. Not surprisingly, these stylistic innovations make some of Faulkner’s novels incredibly challenging to the reader. However, these bold innovations paved the way for countless future writers to continue to experiment with the possibilities of the English language. For his efforts, Faulkner was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1949. He died in Mississippi in 1962(Li Wenjun, 3). The novel The Sound and the Fury, was first published in 1929, Faulkner described the human experience by portraying events and images subjectively, through several different characters’ respective memories of their childhood (Gao Wei, 130). The novel’s stream of consciousness style is extreamely opaque. Despite its formidable complexity, The Sound and the Fury was an overpowering and moving novel. It was generally regarded as Faulkner’s most important and remarkable literary work. Ⅱ. A Brief Introduction to the Novel The Sound and the Fury, Faulkner’s fourth novel, was his first masterpiece, and was considered his finest work. Depicting the decline of the once-aristocratic Compson family, the novel was divided into four parts, each told by a different narrator. According to Faulkner, the story began with a vision of a little girl’s muddy drawers as she climbed a tree to look at death while her brothers lack the courage. The first section was told from the point of view of Benjy Compson, a thirty-three-year-old idiot, and recounted the earliest events in the novel use flashback. As an idiot, Benjy was the key to the novel’s title, which alluded to Shakespeare’s tragedy Macbeth. For the most part, his language was simple—sentences were short, the vocabulary was simple. It was not difficult to read this section. However, sensory stimuli in the present brought him back to another time and place in his past instantly because the idiot had no con