William Faulkner is a famous American writer and a master of stream of consciousness literature in the 20th century. His novel The Sound and the Fury undoubtedly is one of the most experimental and creative works in the history of modern literary. Faulkner fully uses the stream of consciousness, such as interior monologue, multi-perspective narration, montage, free association, unconsciousness and unlike the traditional narrative characters, he breaks the limits of time and space to let readers fully feel the variety and complexity of the flow consciousness. The Sound and the Fury is not only the first real stream of consciousness novel in American literature also is the inheritance and development of that in English literature.
Keywords: William Faulkner, stream of consciousness, the sound and the Fury
