Ranked sixth on the list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century, The Sound and the Fury helped American William Faulkner, the writer, win Nobel Prize for literature in 1949. Being the most imposing body of fiction, Faulkner regards it as his favorite. It's a tragic account of a disintegrating southern "aristocratic" family, with its vestiges of starved and warped affection kept perilously intact by its charade of family honor and the ministration of loyal negro servants. This essay tries to analyze the novel by means of its structure, its writing technique as well as its characters in the following sections.