As you get lost in each successive chapter, you might even find a subtle change in your own thought processes outside of the book. For me, the beauty of The Sound and the Fury was its creative literary style; it offers an opportunity for the reader to assume the role of each character narrator. It also had me raising the question – if Faulkner, or a similarly gifted pen, were to write a chapter in which I was the first-person narrator, what would my stream of consciousness reveal?