In my opinion, The Sound and the Fury is left with hardly any resolution. Mrs. Compson, as usual, treats Dilsey disrespectfully and dramatically assumes that Quentin, cursed like everyone else in the family, committed suicide; Jason goes chasing after Quentin with a vengeance relating to the job he never got; and Dilsey remains to be the only mother figure for Benjy and Luster. Faulkner places the setting of the last part of the novel to be on Easter Sunday. I personally believe that the suggested theme of rebirth from the church scene is used to contrast the state of the Compson family (if you can still even call it a family”. At this point, rebirth or a new beginning is unrealistic; the Compsons are set in their screwed up ways and there is no chance of any of them changing for the better. Therefore Faulkner uses the theme of rebirth to emphasize the pathetic state of the Compsons rather than to exude the promise for their future. To further support this theory, The Sound and the Fury ends with Dilsey realizing that she is near death. As a result, the single constant in the novel, Dilsey, that attempted to hold the Compsons together is now close to death and therefore ensures the complete deterioration of the family.
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" At this point, rebirth or a new beginning is unrealistic; the Compsons are set in their screwed up ways and there is no chance of any of them changing for the better. Therefore Faulkner uses the theme of rebirth to emphasize the pathetic state of the Compsons rather than to exude the promise for their future."--perhaps that's the difference between the resolution you don't find and the closure implied in these very strong sentences.
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