Then this author shows how Faulkner used concepts from the Garden of Eden in structuring his most stunning and difficult stream of consciousness novel The Sound and the Fury. This demonstration includes a section by section and passage by passage analysis of Faulkner's materials, rearranged, marked and explicated in order to make their stunning beauty accessible to the reader.
Faulkner converts the struggle of Eve to achieve independent significance relative to a possessive God to the struggle of the Compson children to reach individuality relative to their self-indulgent parents. Sexually potent and courageous Compson daughter Caddy continues Eve's struggle for freedom, but her sterile and follower brothers fail to reach new possibilities in life. Caddy remained Faulkner's favorite character to the end of his life, and he thought her brother Jason, the representative of the Garden serpent, was the most completely evil character he ever created.
Come read the replay of the archetypal struggle for freedom in the Garden of Eden in Faulkner's mythical Yoknapatawpha County in Mississippi.