After reading The Sound and The Fury, I have a much better understanding of canonical novels.  At first I wasn’t really sure what we were talking about when we made the list of books.  They were all popular books that you’re supposed to read.  Even if you haven’t read most of them, you sort of have an idea of what they are about, and you know the titles and authors to many with out even studying them.  These books all sort of follow the same themes and I now understand that, that’s what makes them able to join the cannon.  Although each book had the same themes in general, they all also introduced new themes that were book specific.  It seems that if you’re not in a class studying the book, these book specific themes would be over looked and ignored by just someone who picked up the book. 

The book was difficult to read, because I like books that have a purpose, like a story line from beginning to end; a book that gives you a reason to read it.  This book to me was almost like a few different little stories put together.  They each had a little story to tell about the family and then at the end it was sort of just dropped.  I liked the book for the most part, I just found it hard to read because I was never sure where it was going with the separate narratives and each person had their own point of view on things went.  In the end they all sort of went back to Caddy though.  Each chapter had something to do with her and how she ruined the family, she was sort of the obsession of everyone in the book.  I guess that’s the most I got out of it besides exploring the separate themes.