The Compson family has three sons; Benjamin (Benjy), Quentin, and Jason, along with a daughter, Candace (Caddy). Benjy is the youngest son of the family and is mentally disabled, Quentin is the oldest son of the family and is the only child of the family who is trying to find some meaning of life, and Jason is the son who can care less about love and family. Caddy on the other hand, is the most important character in the novel, whose views are shown less, and others views on her are shown alot more, being a big part of the novel. Their parents Mr. and Mrs. Compson do not show much love for their children. The only child Mrs. Compson shows some love for is Jason, who perhaps doesn’t care about her love and is actually the worst of the children. …show more content…
It seems that Benjy is lost in the matters of the past; in which neither can he do anything about it nor can he forget it. He remembers things from the past suddenly when something similar happens in the present. Whenever he remembers things like when he was castrated while luster in the present ; helped him change for bed and Caddy’s lost of virginity, he mourns and cries, he can’t forget it and neither can he do anything to change it. Benjy and Luster were Benjy cannot escape the past of his life. Benjy makes no connection from the past and the present. Caddy is all the matters to him throughout his life since his parents and siblings can care less about him. Benjy many disturbing flashbacks of his past, with the present and all mixed up with his memories, and sadly lacks love from his mother who is supposed to be always be there for him. All his mother ever did for him is that she kept him away from the mental asylum, which indeed is a horrible place to be in. Benjy and Quentin are both concerned with Caddy …show more content…
His past memories bother him over and over again. There is a frequent appearance of clocks and watches. The ticking of Quentin’s own watch haunts him so he hits his watch against the dresser and breaks it. Quentin, at Harvard, consistently notices the bells of the clock tower. Quentin is unable to move beyond his memories from the past. Quentin is the hope of the family. Quentin is like Shakespeare’s Hamlet, where he thinks too much about one subject and is trapped in his thoughts from the past. Quentin envies Dalton Ames whenever he sees him or hears about him. He hates the fact that Caddy had been with Dalton Ames. In The Sound and the Fury, Caddy did not enjoy her relationships with men and told Quentin, “When they touched me, I died”. Caddy hated it yet found this as a way to escape from the Compson world. Quentin decided to tell his father that he has committed incest, yet he hasn’t done anything like that. He just wants to protect Caddy. Quentin wants Caddy to be disgraced because of him, not because of the men she had sex with. Quentin saw both, himself and Caddy in hell together with no one else to be seen. Quentin saw this because he was planning on committing suicide. Quentin just wanted Caddy to be protected and for her to stay away from other
In the beginning years of Janie’s life, there were two people who she is dependent on. Her grandmother is Nanny, and her first husband is named Logan Killicks. In Their Eyes Were Watching God, “Janie, an attractive woman with long hair, born without benefit of clergy, is her heroine” (Forrest). Janie’s grandmother felt that Janie needs someone to depend on before she dies and Janie could no longer depend on her. In the beginning, Janie is very against the marriage. Nanny replied with, “’Tain’t Logan Killicks Ah wants you to have, baby, its protection. ...He done spared me...a few days longer till Ah see you safe in life” (Hurston 18). Nanny is sure to remind Janie that she needs a man in her life for safety, thus making Janie go through life with that thought process.
Julius Caesar is mentioned throughout the book, A Long Way Gone, many times. In A Long Way Gone, Ishmael would be reading Julius Caesar or a soldier would be reciting some of the speeches in the play. In Chapter 12 of A Long Way Gone, Ishmael is called over to talk with Lieutenant Jabati. Then, Lieutenant Jabati showed Ishmael the book he was reading, which was Julius Caesar, and asked Ishmael if he had ever heard of the book. Ishmael had read the book in school, and began to recite a speech from the book. After this happened, Lieutenant Jabati and Corporal Gadafi used emotional arguments to motivate the people in the village to stay there and support the military. Also, Lieutenant showed all the people in the village dead bodies to help
The first two people Janie depended on were her Grandmother, whom she called Nanny, and Logan Killicks. Janie’s marriage to Logan Killicks was partially arranged by Nanny. Nanny had felt the need to find someone for Janie to depend on before she died and Janie could no longer depend on her. At first, Janie was very opposed to the marriage. Nanny responded with, “’Tain’t Logan Killicks Ah wants you to have, baby, it’s protection. ...He (God) done spared me...a few days longer till Ah see you safe in life.”(p.14) Nanny instilled the sense of needing a man for safety on Janie that Janie keeps with her throughout her life. After Nanny’s death, Janie continued to stay with Logan despite her dislike for him. She would have left immediately, however, if she did not need to depend on him.
Janie's Grandmother is the first bud on her tree. She raised Janie since she was a little girl. Her grandmother is in some respects a gardener pruning and shaping the future for her granddaughter. She tries to instill a strong belief in marriage. To her marriage is the only way that Janie will survive in life. What Nanny does not realize is that Janie has the potential to make her own path in the walk of life. This blinds nanny, because she is a victim of the horrible effects of slavery. She really tries to convey to Janie that she has her own voice but she forces her into a position where that voice is silenced and there for condemning all hopes of her Granddaughter become the woman that she is capable of being.
The most important element in Quentin’s section is his obsession with time. To Quentin. time is torturous and destructive. He blames time for his loss of Caddy to sin and hence for his own suffering. Quentin becomes obsessed with avoiding time and attempts to avoid all implements which tell time. When he realizes that he has about as much chance of escaping time as stopping Caddy from losing her virginity, he tries to defeat time by destroying himself Therefore, at the end of his section, he commits suicide.
Nevertheless, the change came, and the Reconstruction of the civil values after the Civil War changed the way people behave, think and nourish. This change swept many an aristocratic families like Faulkner as neither they could accept the change nor they could really adjust to it, that made the consequences all the more horrible for the Faulkner family as this became the core destroyer and corrupter of the fundamental family norms. The corrupter was Mr. Compson himself, and he later on passed on this corruption to his son. Compson had three sons that were overprotective of his daughter Caddy, obsessed by her mere presence. While Caddy was inclined to find a way out of this confusion, Quentin was over simplified in his way to clutch to the same old past values. This rebelled Caddy who later played a very influential role. But this cha...
In the novel The Great Gatsby by American novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jordan Baker portrays a professional golfer who is both Daisy Buchanan’s friend and a woman with whom Nick Carraway, the narrator, becomes romantically involved with. She is poised, blonde, very athletic, and physically appealing. Throughout the story, Baker represents a typical privileged upper class woman of the 1920’s Jazz Age with her cynical, glamorous, and self-centered nature. Despite the fact that she is not the main character, Jordan Baker plays an important role in portraying one of Fitzgerald's themes, the decay of morality, in the novel.
The Woodlawn family are American pioneers, successfully chasing after their dream and living in a fairly new town in Wisconsin. Caddie is closest with her father, John, who was given the unusual opportunity to raise one of his daughters; a story which he tells to explain her behavior. He is proud that his methodology worked and Caddie survived because he “would rather see her learn to plow […] if she can get her health by doing so” (Brink 15). John saw that there was a problem with the health of his daughters, which, as a result, some died. Instead of forcing the continuation of convention, he decided that he would rather make sure Caddie lived over being seen as proper to outside people, never regretting his decision. The two have a bond that he does not share with his other children as he took such a vested interest in, and is credited with, helping to save her, which gives them a special connection to each other. John takes full responsibility for Caddie’s actions. In fact, he takes a certain pride because she is still alive to be getting into her scrapes. However, a deal between the parents, similar to that between Matthew and Marilla, left the mother to punish and the father to nurture. The biggest disagreement that Caddie has with her mother results with her in the bedroom set on running away. Her father visits her that night to console his daughter, sensing that she wanted some comfort. John quietly and soothingly without asking Caddie to change her position reminds her of their closeness, how she is his little girl, the one that was allowed to run free. John is trying to broaden Caddie’s perspective that Caddie without ever claiming that her fears are unfounded. He simply reminds her that she can be so much more, she is not going to become what she hates. John smartly brings up and
Jason acknowledges the role Dilsey assumes since she began working for the Compsons by declaring, “when [servants have] been with you for a long time they get so full of self importance […] Think they run the whole family” (207). Jason implies that Dilsey has assumed a leadership role within the family even though she does not deserve it. Contrarily, he gives his mother a role that she does not want, “You are the head of [the house] now” (257). (needs to tie in with rest of essay)
...age of the novel (neglecting to mention the same one at the end) that confuses and upsets Benjy: “caddie” versus “Caddy,” calling on the ambiguities and failing qualities of language, and seeming to draw his essay into a neat circular argument. But he then continues in a somewhat random discussion of Caddy as simultaneously nowhere and everywhere and as a symbol of/for water. He briefly looks at the role of memory in response to a disappeared, yet obsessed-upon figure, although the purpose of this discussion eludes me. Bleikasten ends by accepting Caddy’s elusiveness as necessary given her role in a modern novel and as a woman who cannot be grasped both by male characters and a male author – but what about us female readers? Can we grasp her by reading into Faulkner’s language, or has his failed storytelling blocked her off from any potential female understanding?
Benjy’s loss of Caddy drives his thoughts and memories in the story. From the beginning, Caddy has always given unconditional love to her mental brother, treating him like an equal to his other siblings. She is able to connect with him in a motherly way, as Mrs. Compson is ironically unable to do. In the first section, when the Caroline (the mother) and Uncle Maury fuss at Caddy for not putting gloves on Benjy before going outside, Caroline sympathetically comments, “My poor baby” (Faulkner 8). Defensively, Caddy assures him that “[he] is not a poor baby,” as “[he has] got [his] Caddy” (Faulkner 9). Figuratively, this thought repeats in Benjy’s mind several different times in the novel, as Caddy’s absence soon turns into an obsession for him. For example, Caddy’s “[smelling] like trees” is a scent that Benjy associates with her presence. The day that she got dressed up and wore perfume was the day that Benjy uttered a startling cry. To him, trees remind him of the comfort that Caddy giv...
Addie Bundren, the wife of Anse Bundren and the matriarch of a poor southern family, is very ill, and is expected to die soon. Her oldest son, Cash, puts all of his carpentry skills into preparing her coffin, which he builds right in front of Addie’s bedroom window. Although Addie’s health is failing rapidly, two of her other sons, Darl and Jewel, leave town to make a delivery for the Bundrens’ neighbor, Vernon Tull, whose wife and two daughters have been tending to Addie. Shortly after Darl and Jewel leave, Addie dies. The youngest Bundren child, Vardaman, associates his mother’s death with that of a fish he caught and cleaned earlier that day. With some help, Cash completes the coffin just before dawn. Vardaman is troubled by the fact that his mother is nailed shut inside a box, and while the others sleep, he bores holes in the lid, two of which go through his mother’s face. Addie and Anse’s daughter, Dewey Dell, whose recent sexual liaisons with a local farmhand named Lafe have left her pregnant, is so overwhelmed by anxiety over her condition that she barely mourns her mother’s death. A funeral service is held on the following day, where the women sing songs inside the Bundren house while the men stand outside on the porch talking to each other.
Robert’s father scolds him for skipping school, but he is proud of Robert for helping the mother have her calf. Mr. Tanner rewards Robert by giving him a pig for all of his troubles. Roberts names the pig Pinky, and they become best friends. Robert learns that it is not easy to have a pig as a pet. He makes him a shelter and takes care of Pinky. Every day after school, he rushes home to see pinky.
Whether a trustee, yearning lover, or a cynical annoyance, Caddy saturates various anecdotes in the novel, despite having a voice. Therefore, the narrator is left puzzled as what to take as gospel and uncultivated of her true nature. Without a flawless interpretation of Caddy, a scholar can never achieve a full knowledge of the book 's plot.With each account, the story becomes more unstable and counteractive, therefore, the farther a reader indulges the most difficult the text becomes to understand. As follows, the misrule of these narratives and the and the antagonistic family upbringing force Benjy, Quentin, and Jasons stories to not reflect female perspective in any way, shape, or form. This crucial depletion of the cardinal aspect of the storyline corresponds to the true meaning of the book becoming disheveled, which helps to delete truth from the novel
Compson the father of the family is dissatisfied with modern world, finding a refuge in alcohol; he becomes alcoholic person who cannot face his reality, his conflict with his wife change the house to bullring in which Mr. and Mrs. Compson rarely communicate. He is portrayed as powerless having no word over his family’s decisions or his children’s behavior. Candace Compson: is one of the victims of her family, of alcoholic father and absent cruel mother. Quentin, as one of the sons and members of the family, also is a victim, he is not able to tolerate the decay and what is not acceptable in their society nor what spoils their family honor (Li 16). He is the only one who tries to prevent his sister from being engaged in sexual relations and cares about the family honor, his interest in his sister’s honor makes him imagine that he has committed incest with her. He cannot bear his sister’s behavior and sin, which has contributed greatly in his tragic end, he chooses to commit suicide as the only way to escape degradation and escape the society that does not believe in moral values. This appears when he