This great event occurred right before the beginning of the book (including flashbacks).
What is the Civil War?
Who is Dilsey?
Jason steals Miss Quentin's money to invest in this commodity.
What is cotton?
The name of Dilsey's husband.
What is Roskus?
These characters are present figures but do not directly narrate the book. (6)
Who are Caddy, Caroline, Mr. Compson, Luster, T.P., and Versh. (Caddy and Caroline are main characters even though they do not have a chapter to narrate)
Jason burns these.
What are the tickets to the minstrel show?
As punishment for chasing girls, Benjy is
What is castrated?
This character is sour toward Caddy, but she holds importance in this character's life.
Who is Jason? (He demands that he have sole custody over Quentin so he can mooch money off of Caddy)
A big idea in Modernism is this narrative technique.
What is stream of consciousness?
Jason's section of the novel takes place on this holiday.
What is Good Friday?
The Sound and the Fury can be considered this genre
What is Southern Gothic?
These characters are Benjy's caretakers throughout his life. (3)
Who are Versh (infancy/childhood), T.P. (teen), and Luster (present)
What does Quentin break in his dorm room?
What is his watch?
Modernist artists sees time in this way, which explains why Faulkner uses flashbacks so often.
What is non-linear?
Jason keeps this in Memphis.
What is his mistress?
In terms of allegory, The Sound and the Fury can be understood as a metaphor for the
What is the decaying South?
"You mean, he been three years old thirty years." Explain the meaning of this quote found in chapter one.
It means that Benjy, who does not have the mental capabilities to advance beyond the midset of a three year old, has been three for thirty years.
These two factors ultimately drive Quentin to his suicide.
What are his father's indifference, and Caddy's loss of innocence of purity?
Chronologically, the novel ends in 1928 but actually begins in this year.
What is 1910?
Jason is the only Compson child to gain this.
What is their mother's love?
This event foreshadows Caddy's promiscuity.
What is falling into the mud?