Reinterpreting the Man with the Red Tie to End The Sound and the Fury
Abstract
Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury creates a chaotic but tolerant world for various kinds of voices and identities, in which the marginalized groups are allowed to enter in. The “boyfriend” of Miss Quentin, the man with the red tie might be one of them, who is more like a symbol instead of a real character. Inspired by the presumption that the showman wearing a red tie was probably a homosexual, this paper aims at reinterpreting his association with Jason Compson and Miss Quentin and the real end of this novel.
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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.18686/ahe.v6i27.10448
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