The Novels of William Faulkner.

'"'I couldn"'"t smell trees anymore'"'
The title of The Sound and the Fury is based on lines in Macbeth, by William Shakespeare;
'"'Life"'"s just a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more; it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury
Signifying nothing.'"'
According to this Benjy, the narrator of this section of the book, is the idiot who is telling the tale, but Benjy is far from being an idiot. He seems to be able to sense everything through smell; many of these things are things that can"'"t be detected by anyone e…