blog #4 — Faulkner

February 19, 2007 emilysatalino

            After missing classes due to numerous bad luck encounters, catching up with The Sound and The Fury was one task that I wish I did not have to endure. After reading the first part I was confused as to what was going on. It took me a bit of time to finally realize that Benjy was the narrator of the first section. I also found it difficult throughout to figure out who was white and who was black.

            Another thing that completely threw me off was the fact that there are two Quentins, and one is female and the other one male. The reading was difficult enough as it was without including two characters with the same name.

            The passage that I chose didn’t exactly intrigue or annoy me, but it informed me. On page 4 where Benjy says,

 

“Caddy uncaught me and we crawled through. Uncle

Maury said to not let anybody see us, so we better stoop

 over, Caddy said. Stoop over, Benjy. Like this, see. We

stooped over and crossed the garden, where the flowers

rasped and rattled against us.”

 

I found this passage informative because it is the first time in the chapter where the narrator is given a name. I liked this because it was given on the second page, so I didn’t have to read to far without knowing whose point of view this chapter was coming from. I also found this chapter informative because Benjy is said to be thirty three years old on page 3 but he clearly is not up to a thirty three year old’s intelligence level. This passage shows this because Caddy had to show him how to “stoop over”.

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