Caddy I Wont Again Ever Benjy
The oldest Compson child and the novel'south second narrator, Quentin is close with his father and Caddy. He feels the constant burden of his family'southward by greatness and its present decline. This turns into an obsession with time and his place within information technology, and Quentin carries his gramps's picket everywhere. He also connects Caddy's promiscuity with the loss of the family unit honour. In that location is implied sexual tension betwixt Quentin and Caddy, and he is certainly very possessive of her sexuality and "laurels." Quentin is intelligent and sensitive, but he is never able to protect (or influence) Caddy or act on his ideas – similar his suicide pact with Caddy or his attempt to attack Dalton Ames – except in his suicide.
Quentin Compson Quotes in The Sound and the Fury
The The Sound and the Fury quotes below are all either spoken by Quentin Compson or refer to Quentin Compson. For each quote, you can also encounter the other characters and themes related to information technology (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, similar this i:
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Caddy and I ran. We ran upward the kitchen steps, onto the porch, and Caddy knelt downwards in the dark and held me… "I wont." she said. "I wont anymore, ever. Benjy. Benjy." Then she was crying, and I cried, and we held each other. "Hush." she said. "Hush. I wont anymore." So I hushed and Caddy got upwardly and we went into the kitchen and turned the low-cal on and Caddy took the kitchen lather and washed her mouth at the sink, hard. Caddy smelled like trees.
I kept a telling you to stay away from there, Luster said. They sat up in the swing, quick. Quentin had her hands on her hair. He had a red tie.
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When the shadow of the sash appeared on the curtains information technology was between seven and viii oclock and then I was in time again, hearing the lookout man. It was Granddad's and when Begetter gave it to me he said I requite you the mausoleum of all hope and desire… I give it to y'all not that may remember time, but that y'all might forget it at present and then for a moment and not spend all your breath trying to conquer it.
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In the South you are ashamed of being a virgin. Boys. Men. They lie about it. Because information technology means less to women, Begetter said. He said it was men invented virginity not women… and I said, Why couldn't it have been me and not her who is unvirgin and he said, That'southward why that'south sad too; zero is even worth the changing of it, and Shreve said if he'south got better sense than to hunt subsequently the dirty niggling sluts and I said Did you ever have a sister? Did you? Did you lot?
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I went to the dresser and took up my watch, with the face up still down. I tapped the crystal on the corner of the dresser and caught the fragments of drinking glass in my manus and put them into the ashtray and twisted the hands off and put them in the tray. The watch ticked on.
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That was when I realised that a nigger is not a person so much equally a form of beliefs; a sort of obverse reflection of the white people he lives amidst. But I thought at first that I ought to miss having a lot of them around me because I thought that Northerners idea I did, only I didn't know that I really had missed Roskus and Dilsey and them until that morning time in Virginia.
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Got to ally somebody
Take there been very many Caddy
I don't know as well many volition y'all look after Benjy and Father
You lot don't know whose it is then does he know
Don't bear on me will you look after Benjy and Father
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Listen no good taking it so difficult its not your mistake kid information technology would have been some other fellow
Did you always have a sis did y'all
No but theyre all bitches
I striking him my open hand beat the impulse to close it to his face up his manus moved as fast equally mine the cigarette went over the rail I swung the other paw he caught it besides before the cigarette reached the water he held both my wrists in the same paw
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"When they began to sell the land to send Quentin to Harvard I told your male parent that he must make an equal provision for you. And then when Herbert offered to take you lot into the bank I said, Jason is provided for now, and when all the expense began to pile upwards and I was forced to sell our furniture and the rest of the pasture, I wrote her at once because I said she will realise that she and Quentin have had their share and office of Jason's likewise and that it depends on her now to compensate him… You were correct to reproach me."
"Do you lot retrieve I need any man'due south help to stand on my feet?" I says. "Allow lonely a adult female that cant name the begetter of her own kid."
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"Fiddlesticks," Mrs. Compson said. "It's in the blood. Like uncle, similar niece. Or mother. I don't know which would be worse. I don't seem to care."
"Whut you keep on talkin that way fur?" Dilsey said. "Whut she desire to do anything like that fur?"
"I don't know. What reason did Quentin have? Under God's heaven what reason did he have? It cant be simply to flout and hurt me. Whoever God is, He would non permit that. I'thou a lady. You lot might non believe that from my offspring, but I am."
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Quentin Compson Character Timeline in The Sound and the Fury
The timeline beneath shows where the character Quentin Compson appears in The Sound and the Fury. The colored dots and icons signal which themes are associated with that advent.
...and his mother are riding in the Compsons' carriage to go visit the graves of Quentin – Benjy'southward brother – and Mr. Compson. T.P., some other of Dilsey's sons, must drive the... (full context)
...was buried. Benjy is simply three and the family has not discovered his disability yet. Quentin, Caddy, Jason, and Benjy are all playing together in the branch and beingness watched past... (full context)
...returns to the retentivity, in which the children head habitation from the branch. Caddy and Quentin worry that Jason volition tattle to their parents about their wet clothes, and they will... (total context)
...run across the thou. Benjy's narration is even more muddled than normal, and he watches Quentin fighting with T.P. Quentin beats him up, only T.P. can't finish laughing. Benjy starts crying... (full context)
...The children meet Mr. Compson at the firm, and Jason immediately tattles to him about Quentin and Caddy's moisture wearing apparel. Mr. Compson says that the children have to eat in the... (total context)
...her besides. Dilsey serves dinner to the children, merely then Benjy starts crying once more. Quentin asks if Mrs. Compson was crying earlier, but Dilsey deflects the question. Quentin presses on,... (full context)
...about the expletive of the Compsons, and he says the sign of information technology is Miss Quentin, Caddy'southward illegitimate daughter. Roskus says he knew they were unlucky when they changed Benjy's proper noun. (full context)
Benjy takes a toy from Miss Quentin, who is still very young, and Miss Quentin gets aroused and Benjy cries. Frony, Dilsey's... (total context)
...in the nowadays, Luster warns Benjy not to go by the nearby swing, as Miss Quentin is there with her "beau." This makes Benjy remember encountering Caddy on the same swing... (total context)
Back in 1928, Benjy approaches the swing and interrupts Miss Quentin and her boyfriend, who is wearing a ruby tie. Miss Quentin gets aroused at Luster... (full context)
...himself. He asks Luster well-nigh it, and Luster says that men come to visit Miss Quentin every night, and she climbs downwards the tree outside her window to encounter them. The... (full context)
Miss Quentin comes in and is yet angry with Luster, and so Jason threatens her about hanging... (full context)
In the present once more, the family unit sits down to dinner, and Miss Quentin complains that she doesn't like living here, as Benjy is like "a sus scrofa" and Jason... (total context)
...feeding him, and he remembers Mrs. Compson lament about beingness ill. In the nowadays, Miss Quentin curses Jason and leaves the table. Benjy then remembers Mr. Compson getting mad at Jason... (full context)
...Caddy smelling like trees, and then back in the nowadays Luster is pleased that Miss Quentin gave him a quarter for the show. Benjy so returns to the past, where the... (total context)
This next chapter is narrated by Quentin, Benjy's blood brother. Quentin wakes up in his dorm room at Harvard, sees a shadow on... (full context)
Quentin hears his roommate Shreve go up, and Quentin briefly gets upward then gets dorsum... (full context)
Shreve then appears in the doorway and interrupts Quentin's musing. Shreve reminds him that the bell for chapel will band in two minutes, and... (full context)
Quentin watches Spoade, a confident, nonchalant senior who is ever belatedly to chapel, and remembers how... (full context)
A sparrow lands on Quentin's windowsill and seems to heed with him as the hour chimes strike. Quentin then remembers... (full context)
Quentin suddenly breaks his picket against the corner of his dresser, shattering the glass and and then... (full context)
Quentin puts the key to his trunk and two notes into an envelope, and then seals... (total context)
Quentin then goes to a store and has breakfast, and buys a cigar. He goes dorsum... (full context)
Quentin then thinks of his male parent maxim that "clocks slay time," that every bit long equally time... (full context)
Quentin goes to the train station and boards a train. He sits downward next to a... (full context)
In between his other musings and memories, Quentin'south inner dialogue keeps returning to the dark Caddy lost her virginity, when she came home... (total context)
The train stops past a bridge across the harbor and Quentin gets off. He walks onto the bridge and looks down at the water. He thinks... (full context)
Quentin and then sees Gerald Bland, a wealthy, swaggering Harvard student, rowing a crew beat out across the... (total context)
Quentin's memory and then shifts through a confusing series of memories most Herbert Head and Mrs. Compson's... (full context)
Quentin finds Deacon, the blackness human he was looking for before. Deacon has lived around Harvard... (full context)
Quentin then remembers his female parent maxim that Jason was the only child close to her, and... (total context)
Quentin gets on a trolley, however thinking vaguely most time, and he gets off around lunchtime.... (full context)
In the memory Herbert keeps offering Quentin a cigar, and talks most how he is giving Jason a task at a depository financial institution,... (full context)
Quentin and then remembers talking to Caddy before her wedding. Caddy says she is sick, and Quentin... (full context)
Quentin thinks again about virginity, and most Mr. Compson proverb that Quentin was only upset with... (total context)
Quentin walks onto a bridge again, looking into the water and thinking about drowning, shadows, and... (full context)
Quentin then remembers trying to convince Caddy not to ally Herbert Head, and telling her about... (full context)
Back in the nowadays, Quentin goes into a bakery and meets a little Italian girl in that location. The girl doesn't speak,... (total context)
As he walks, Quentin thinks nearly the aroma of honeysuckle and more virtually Caddy, particularly one time Quentin slapped... (total context)
A police marshal catches up with them and arrests Quentin, as Julio has accused him of kidnapping his sister. Quentin is taken to the squire... (full context)
Mrs. Bland takes Quentin in her machine along with the other boys, and she scolds him as they drive.... (total context)
Quentin remembers desperately offering to impale himself if Caddy would kill herself too, and talking almost... (full context)
Quentin so remembers confronting Dalton Ames and ordering him to get out town. Dalton Ames is totally... (full context)
The narrative returns to the present, where Shreve and Spoade are tending to a wounded Quentin on the side of the road somewhere – earlier on the car ride Quentin asked... (total context)
Quentin tells Shreve and Spoade to keep without him, and they take a trolley back... (full context)
Quentin thinks nearly his family and his parents' pride in their bloodlines, and he thinks virtually... (full context)
A bell sounds again, and Quentin puts on his vest and puts his picket into Shreve's desk drawer. So he brushes... (total context)
...the day before Benjy's section takes place. Jason is arguing with his mother about Miss Quentin, Jason's niece. Mrs. Compson is worried that Miss Quentin is skipping school, and Jason says... (total context)
Mrs. Compson cannot command Miss Quentin, just she is agape to let Jason discipline her, as he can be brutal and... (total context)
Miss Quentin is with Dilsey in the dining room, and Jason confronts her about skipping school. Quentin... (full context)
Miss Quentin is upset and Dilsey comforts her, promising to protect her, but and then Quentin turns her... (full context)
Jason drives Miss Quentin to school and the family unit's state of affairs becomes more articulate – Caddy sends money to Quentin... (full context)
...the farm-supply store in town. He gets a alphabetic character from Caddy request most whether Miss Quentin has been receiving her money. Jason and so goes on an inner rant about the laziness... (full context)
...near how much he has had to work all his life, and how Benjy, Miss Quentin, his female parent, and the Gibsons (Dilsey and her family) are nix but burdens to him. (full context)
Jason is still bitter that Mr. Compson never sent him to Harvard similar his blood brother Quentin, and Jason remembers when his male parent died. In the retention Uncle Maury comforts the mourning... (total context)
Jason and then remembers Mr. Compson taking in the babe Miss Quentin, even though Mrs. Compson had disowned Caddy. In the memory Dilsey accepts that she will... (full context)
...had gone home. Caddy offered to pay Jason a hundred dollars but to encounter Miss Quentin for a minute, and Jason took her coin and so gave Caddy just a passing... (full context)
...Caddy found Jason at his store, trying to convince him to let her see Miss Quentin, merely he bullied her into leaving, still raging about the task at the bank she... (total context)
...Jason again, and she relented to an arrangement where she would send money for Miss Quentin'south welfare, but she must promise to stay away from the family unit. Back in the present,... (full context)
Miss Quentin of a sudden shows up at the store, asking nigh the letter. Jason mocks her and says... (full context)
...his mother. His scheme becomes apparent – Jason himself cashes Caddy'south monthly checks for Miss Quentin and gives a faux check to Mrs. Compson, who tearfully burns them. This is the... (full context)
...gives his mother the false check, and she laments what a burden she and Miss Quentin are to Jason, but she still burns the cheque, as she wants no clemency from... (full context)
...as before long as he can, as he is embarrassed and annoyed by Benjy's presence. Miss Quentin doesn't come abode for dinner, which upsets Mrs. Compson and makes Jason feel justified in... (full context)
...mocking and tormenting Earl's old black assistant, but he is interrupted when he sees Miss Quentin laissez passer by the store with a man in a ruddy necktie. The red tie is... (full context)
...Ford, and and so he sees the human being in the reddish tie driving it and Miss Quentin in the rider seat. Crazed with anger, Jason chases the Ford 5 miles out from... (full context)
...follows the tire tracks of the Ford into some underbrush. He hopes to grab Miss Quentin having sex with the human being in a ditch, but and so he hears their machine start... (full context)
Jason arrives and finds Luster, who says that Mrs. Compson and Miss Quentin are fighting upstairs and Dilsey is trying to mediate. Luster complains about how he can't... (full context)
...reads the paper, and he threatens to make Dilsey bring him his nutrient unless Miss Quentin and his mother will come up downstairs for dinner. They submit, and the iii sit at... (full context)
Mrs. Compson and so complains about how she doesn't empathise Miss Quentin, and how none of her family loved her except for Jason. Mrs. Compson says Quentin... (full context)
...and sympathy. Jason comes downstairs, aroused and sarcastic about his broken window. He accuses Miss Quentin, who is still asleep – she is always immune to sleep in on Sundays –... (full context)
Upstairs Dilsey calls gently for Miss Quentin, simply there is no response. Jason suddenly understands what has happened and gets up from... (total context)
...again, and Dilsey and Luster endeavour to at-home him downwards. Dilsey asks Luster almost Miss Quentin, and Luster says he sees her sneak out of her room and become downwards the... (full context)
...house to find Jason all the same gone. Mrs. Compson is in bed, still convinced that Miss Quentin has killed herself, probably to hurt Mrs. Compson herself, and she wants Dilsey to find... (full context)
...Jason, who arrives at the sheriff's firm, demanding they leave immediately and rail down Miss Quentin. The sheriff delays, finally saying that he is suspicious of Jason's accusation. Jason grows furious... (full context)
...victimized. He imagines himself attacking the sheriff, but he does not think specifically of Miss Quentin or his coin – for him they simply exist as an extension of the bank... (full context)
...Mottson, which is where the minstrel testify will be next week – Jason thinks Miss Quentin will be there with the man in the red necktie. Jason starts to get a... (full context)
Jason reaches Mottson and finds the minstrel bear witness tent. He wants to ambush Miss Quentin and become his money dorsum chop-chop, only first he comes across a fragile erstwhile human being.... (full context)
...him around the corner, explaining that the old human is crazy. Jason asks well-nigh Miss Quentin, and the man says that she and the man with the cherry-red necktie are not... (full context)
...of the Compson property to the golf order to pay for Caddy's lavish wedding and Quentin'due south Harvard tuition. (total context)
The listing continues with the characters of the novel: Quentin 3, who was obsessed with the concept of Compson honor as symbolized past his sister... (full context)
The last Compson is Miss Quentin, Caddy's daughter, who was "doomed to exist unwed" from the moment she was born. She... (total context)
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