Faulkner's treatment and representation about time were innovative in The Sound and the Fury.The Characters' time concepts are closely related artistically with the various time devices which serve the telling of the story. The relations between three Compsonbrothers and future and time are closely linked with their personal status, and those time concepts arethenecessary sign and symptom which bring them to final ruin, whilethe continuum of Dilsey's time concepts makes her understand what has happened to t...