Faulkner likes to mess with time quite a bit. From the morass of memories that was The Sound and the Fury to A Rose for Emily, he makes very odd jumps through time, seemingly at random.
OR ARE THEY?!?!?!?!
Ok, probably nothing too sinister about it, but it is an interesting way to tell a story. It does kinda keep you reading, if only because you want to know what direction Faulkner is trying to take the story. If we accept the theory we discussed in class (the one about multiple people telling Emily's story) then I could be a way to show that people are trying to 'put in their two cent's worth'. If instead we stick with the 'lone storyteller' theory, then it could simply be a way to keep the reader (or listener) interested.
While this theory works for A Rose for Emily, it doesn't work too well for The Sound and the Fury, unless you go back to my first theory. Multiple people telling a story, or rather, remembering things in a disconcerting way, is still an interesting way to tell that story. If nothing else, it keeps the reader reading on. After all, sometimes things are extremely annoying to read, but we keep reading in the hopes that it will all make sense at the end.
Just my thoughts, take 'em or leave 'em.
(I know, I'm not making sense, just think on it, and you'll probably get what I'm trying to say)
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