William faulkner is regarded as one of the most influential modernist novelists in the 20th century American literature history. He created many great works in his life, The Sound and the Fury, which became the object of study by critics. The result of some critics' research is that the female characters he created in Faulkner's works are cold mothers and degenerate daughters, which is attributed to Mrs. Commscope's indifference to children and Katie's distortion. Faulkner's narrative skills, men's hatred of women and the author's deprivation of women's right to speak all reflect the author's misogyny. So far, this novel is rarely interpreted from the feminist perspective. This paper reanalyzes the novel from a new feminist perspective and interprets Faulkner's feminist thought. The first part of the introduction briefly introduces the writer william faulkner and his work The Sound and the Fury. This paper briefly reviews the research status of this novel at home and abroad, and points out the research purpose and framework of this paper. The second part introduces the feminist literary criticism theory as a theoretical framework, and points out that it is the core part of feminist literary criticism theory in the sound and the fury. The fourth part is the conclusion. The conclusion of this paper summarizes the female problems reflected in william faulkner's novel The Sound and the Fury. At the same time, it is pointed out that the critics' understanding of the female characters in The Sound and the Fury is biased. Faulkner's works undoubtedly show that his feminism refers to the social theory and political movement founded and launched to end gender discrimination, sexual exploitation and oppression and promote gender equality. Feminists not only criticize social relations, but also focus on gender inequality and the rights, interests and problems at the bottom. Emily was born in a noble family, received a systematic education, and was kind-hearted, docile and clever. Emily's father, on the other hand, was overbearing and autocratic, strictly disciplined Emily's words and deeds before her death and even interfered with her marriage. He turned down almost all the young men who pursued Emily, so that she was still in her thirties. Shortly after her father died, Emily met Homer, a Yankee who was paid by the day. With a longing for love, Emily quickly fell in love with Homer and wanted to spend the rest of her life with her, but Homer had no intention of getting married. In order to save her dying love, Emily poisoned Homer with arsenic and hid his body in the attic for more than 40 years. Until Emily died, people in the town pried open her room out of curiosity. People were surprised to find a corpse lying quietly in the room, with a sleeping dent and a wisp of iron gray hair on the pillow next to the corpse. Miss Emily has never been married. It turned out that she slept with the mummy for decades.