Caddy not following the rules and her strong-willed spirit as a child carries over to when she grows up. For instance‚ young Caddy accidentally wets her dress when she plays by the water. Instead of worrying about the consequences of her wet dress‚ the headstrong Caddy dares to remove it to continue playing. According to Benjy‚ the youngest Compson brother‚ “Caddy [then] didn’t have anything on but her bodice and drawers” (Faulkner 12). Later on‚ when Caddy climbs a tree‚ the boys “watched the
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brothers; Jason‚ Benjy and Quentin and their obsession of their sister Caddy‚ who seems somewhat promiscuous. Benjy tells the first part of the story from his prospective. This prospective is the most difficult to understand‚ due to the fact that he is severely retarded. Benjy has no perspective of time‚ cause or effect which is why he portrays all is past events in present time. Benjy is also completely dependent on Caddy for support and affection and has the unique ability to sense when something
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"The Sound and the Fury" Literary Criticism “Within this rigid world Caddy is at once the focus of order and the instrument of its destruction‚” (Bloom 20). Candace Compson‚ “Caddy”‚ is the central character of the novel even though none of the narration is seen through her eyes. In each of the three sections by her brothers she is the main subject. Caddy represents something different to everyone one of her brothers‚ but remains the center of their lives. “Faulkner was a pioneer in literary
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caddied at Dearborn Country Club. Jessica was the only female caddy at the country club. Jessica answered a number of questions for me over text. Most of the questions she was asked related to how her experience working as a caddy compared to mine. Since she was a woman working a predominately males job‚ the treatment she received‚ the physical stress she was put through‚ and her interest would all be different from mine or any other male caddies. The first series of questions Jessica answered were mostly
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and drawn out deterioration of their once dignified‚ well-respected family. Faulkner appears to have a specific perception of his characters and their relationships that he would like his readers to develop in reading the novel‚ specifically about Caddy as a central cause of the Compson family’s undoing. These intentions are apparent through the consecutive order he has placed each of the characters’ chapters in. Faulkner’s deliberate placement of his chapters in this novel is to allow his readers
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Miss Quentin‚ grew up to be just like her and brings even more shame to the family; So much shame that Mrs. Compson does not want to accept the money that Caddy sends instead she burns them. Mrs. Compson hates that Caddy ruin the family name that she does not even mention Caddy’s name in the house. She will rather miss Quentin not know about Caddy at all: “…She must never even learn that name. I forbid you ever to speak that name in her hearing. If she could grow up never to know she had a mother‚
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obsessions with their sister Caddy. To understand the sons’ obsessions‚ one must understand that the Compsons are an extremely dysfunctional family in constant turmoil. With an alcoholic father and a hypochondriac for a mother‚ the children of the Compson’s are inevitably neglected and left striving for the love and affection that they lacked from their parents. Benjy‚ the Compson’s mentally handicapped son‚ looks to Caddy as a surrogate mother. Quentin looks at Caddy as more of a lover than a sister
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Ben Boyd English 11H In his novel‚ The Sound and the Fury‚ William Faulkner employs a unique structural assembly to relay a compelling and complex plot to his readers. Faulkner often uses incoherent and irrational phrases to bring the reader into the minds of the characters. With a believable plot‚ convincing characterization and important literary devices‚ William Faulkner is able to bring into perspective a new structural form of writing which influences the significance of the content
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fragments from the first three sections of the novel in order to highlight some of these new literary devices. Each fragment represents the corresponding narrator point of view about the event that marked the beginnig of the decline of the Compson family-Caddy ’s virginity loss. The first fragment comes from the section "April 7th‚ 1928" where gradually we find out about the Compson tragedy. The narrator- Benjy a youngest son of the family‚ also a thirty-three year man afflicted by idiocy-has no concept
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THE SOUND AND THE FURY William Faulkner’s background influenced him to write the unconventional novel The Sound and the Fury. One important influence on the story is that Faulkner grew up in the South. The Economist magazine states that the main source of his inspiration was the passionate history of the American South‚ centered for him in the town of Oxford‚ Mississippi‚ where he lived most of his life. Similarly‚ Faulkner turns Oxford and its environs‚ "my own little postage stamp of native
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