Monday, March 24, 2014
The Quentin Chapter
I was expecting the Quentin chapter to be much more lucid than the Benjy chapter, but I found that assumption to be false. Quentin jumps from thought to thought without much punctuation. Even though it is text, it seems like the words are coming a lot faster when he is talking about Caddy and his feelings for her. He also seems to have an odd fixation with time. While Benjy paid no attention to time and thoughts flowed freely with no chronological order, Quentin pays a little too much attention to time. His observations on time constantly interrupt his flow of consciousness, and it seems that Faulkner is trying to say something with Quentin. If you pay too much attention to time, then your thoughts become clouded and scattered.
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interesting, but try to include some of the other things that get brought up in this chapter, specifics
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