Sound and Fury: Accent and Identity in Faulkner’s Immigration Novel

Idiocy, Innocence, and Whiteness in Faulkner’s Fiction

“…and to provide a means of discriminating where other methods were beginning to fail" (28). In a description of "whiteness when alone" which could also be extended to Benjy, Toni Morrison views whiteness without its broken opposites as "mute, meaningless, unfathomable, pointless, frozen, veiled, curtained, dreaded, 14 Lisa Cohen Minnick (2004) and Joshua Wall (2017) both view Benjy's flattened speech as a positive feature of the novel. senseless, implacable.…”