| Nobel Prize novelist William Faulkner of Oxford, Mississippi, was a pioneer proponent of women's rights. In his novel The Sound and the Fury, Faulkner presents the pitfalls of the social stereotyping of women through the story of the Compsons, a once prominent, but quickly deteriorating Southern family. He uses his mastery in the art of storytelling to present the problems resulting from the social stereotyping of women, as well as his prediction of a dismal future for the South if it refuses to acknowledge and permit the changing roles of women in society. |
