This
graph (contributed by Joel Deshaye) shows two dimensions of time in The
Sound and the Fury: chronological time, and Faulkner's re-ordering
of chronological time into the text's narrative sequence. Faulkner scrambles
the chronology not only by flashbacks, but also by the non-linear sequence
of the novel's sections. Through this graph it becomes clear that the novel
follows a conventional in medias res structure, whose existence
is otherwise obscured by more local narrative complexities.