There's music coming from the computer speakers.
"Young Pilgrims" by The Shins.
"A cold and wet November dawn
And there are no barking sparrows
Just emptiness to dwell upon"
Emptiness.
Empty, like my mind. What to write?
My mind is blank.
"I watch the ice melt on the glass
While the eloquent young pilgrims pass"
I wonder what it's like to ride a train somewhere. I've been on one once, with my cousins and grandfather, but that was just a stupid train tour around the Hood River area. I had already been to the places that the train stopped at. It wasn't new or exciting.
What's it like to ride on the Trans-Siberian railroad? Is it cold and snowy? Dark? Does it wind through mountain passes and over vast, frozen tundra? Do the passengers wear fur hats and coats?
It reminds me of The Polar Express, my mom used to read that book to me when I was younger. I liked the reindeer. Maybe that's because I liked Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. Mom said I could watch that movie over and over again.
Red. The shirt I'm wearing is red. I like the color red. It reminds me of old, brick buildings, and beautiful, scarlet dresses. Fresh apples, and rain-drenched fall leaves.
Green is nice too. The human eye can see more shades of green than any other color. Unless you're color blind, of course. I know someone who's color blind. He's a pretty cool guy. I also know someone who can't smell. It's cool, because they are both good-humored about their
I can't think of a good word.
Deformities?
That makes it sound like they're mutants. They're not, you can't tell that they can't see red and green, or can't smell just by looking at them, it's just in their DNA. In their genes.
I need new jeans. One of my pairs has a hole in the left knee.
My mind is blank now. All I can think about is how this pencil is moving on the paper.
Flowing.
Creating grey characters on paper that's white with blue lines.
Why blue lines? Why not eggplant or emerald?
The spiral spine of this notebook is bent. Probably from being stuffed into an already full backpack. It's shiny and metallic. I wonder what kind of metal it's made out of?
It doesn't really matter.
The ceiling fan is on.
It's always on. Always spinning at a steady, constant speed.
There's a large spiderweb on the brass chord that is supposed to change speeds or turn it off. We probably haven't touched that chord since Christmas, when we had family over.
I'm using my AP US History textbook as a hard surface to write on. That's about the only thing that mammoth book is good for. I'm really unhappy with AP US History. I never should have signed up for it.
I hope I do well on the final.
School's almost out.
I can't wait for summer. My friends and I are planning to go to the beach a lot. How many times we' really will go, I'm not sure.
Summer always is a let down.
At the beginning you have such high hopes, so many ideas of what you're going to do. You can start over. It's fresh and new, but becomes tiring and old.
I always end up just sitting around the house with nothing to do.
Anyway, I'm hungry so I'm going to go make lunch. Stream of consciousness writing is fun!
Thursday, May 29, 2008
An Excerpt From "The Sound And The Fury" (page 172-176)
I turned out the light and went into my bedroom, out of the gasoline but I could still smell it. I stood at the window the curtains moved slow out of the darkness touching my face like someone breathing asleep, breathing slow into the darkness again, leaving the touch. After they had gone up stairs Mother lay back in her chair, the camphor handkerchief to her mouth. Father hadn't moved he still sat beside her holding her hand the bellowing hammering away like no place for it in silence When I was little there was a picture in one of our books, a dark place into which a single weak ray of light came slanting upon two faces lifted out of the shadow. You know what I'd do if I were King? she never was a queen or a fairy she was always a king or a giant or a general I'd break that place open and drag them out and I'd whip them good It was torn out, jagged out. I was glad. I'd have to turn back to it until the dungeon was Mother herself she and Father upward into weak light holding hands and us lost somewhere below even them without even a ray of light. Then the honeysuckle got into it. As soon as I turned off the light and tried to go to sleep it would begin to come into the room in waves building and building up until I would have to pant to get any air at all out of it until I would have to get up and feel my way like when I was a little boy hands can see touching in the mind shaping unseen door Door now nothing hands can see My nose could see gasoline, the vest on the table, the door. The corridor was still empty of all the feet in sad generations seeking water. yet the eyes unseeing clenched like teeth not disbelieving doubting even the absence of pain shin ankle knee the long invisible flowing of the stair-railing where a misstep in the darkness filled with sleeping Mother Father Caddy Jason Maury door I am not afraid only Mother Father Caddy Jason Maury getting so far ahead sleeping I will sleep fast when I door Door door It was empty too, the pipes, the porcelain, the stained quiet walls, the throne of contemplation. I had forgotten the glass, but I could hands can see cooling fingers invisible swan-throat where less than Moses rod the glass touch tentative not to drumming lean cool throat drumming cooling the metal the glass full overfull cooling the glass the fingers flushing sleep leaving the taste of dampened sleep in the long silence of the throat I returned up the corridor, waking the lost feet in whispering battalions in the silence, into the gasoline, the watch telling its furious lie on the dark table. Then the curtains breathing out of the dark upon my face, leaving the breathing upon my face. A quarter hour yet. And then I'll not be. The peacefullest words. Peacefullest words. Non fui. Sum. Fui. Non sum. Somewhere I heard bells once. Mississippi or Massachusetts. I was. I am not. Massachusetts or Mississippi. Shreve has a bottle in his trunk. Aren't you even going to open it Mr and Mrs Jason Richmond Compson announce the Three times. Days. Aren't you even going to open it marriage of their daughter Candace that liquor teaches you to confuse the means with the end I am. Drink. I was not. Let us sell Benjy's pasture so that Quentin may got ot Harvard and I may knock my bones together and together. I will be dead in. Was it one year Caddy said. Shreve has a bottle in his trunk. Sir I will not need Shreve's I have sold Benjy's pasture and I can be dead in Harvard Caddy said in the caverns and the grottoes of the sea tumbling peacefully to the wavering tides because Harvard is such a fine sound forty acres is no high price for a fine sound. A fine dead sound we will swap Benjy's pasture for a fine dead sound. It will last him a long time because he cannot hear it unless he can smell it as soon as she came in the door he began to cry I thought all the time it was just one of those town squirts that Father was always teasing her about until. I didn't notice him any more than any other stranger drummer or what thought they were army shirts until all of a sudden I knew he wasn't thinking of me at all as a potential source of harm but was thinking of her when he looked at me was looking at me through her like through a piece of colored glass why must you meddle with me dont you know it wont do any good I thought you'd have left that for Mother and Jason
did Mother set Jason to spy on you I wouldn't have.
Women only use other people's codes of honor it's because she loves Caddy staying downstairs even when she was sick so Father couldn't kid Uncle Maury before Jason Father said Uncle Maury was too poor a classicist to risk the blind immortal boy in person he should have chosen Jason because Jason would have made only the same kind of blunder Uncle Maury himself would have made not one to get him a black eye the Patterson boy was smaller than Jason too they sold the kites for a nickel a piece until the trouble over finances Jason got a new partner still smaller one small enough anyway because T.P. said Jason still treasurer but Father said why should Uncle Maury work if he Father could support five or six niggers that did nothing at all but sit with their feet in the oven he certainly could board and lodge Uncle Maury now and then and lend him a little money who kept his Father's belief in the celestial derivation of his own species at such a fine heat then Mother would cry and say that Father believed his people were better than hers that he was ridiculing Uncle Maury to teach us the same thing she couldn't see that Father was teaching us that all men are just accumulations dolls stuffed with sawdust swept up from the trash heaps where all previous dolls had been thrown away the sawdust flowing from what wound in what side that not for me died not. It used to be I thought of death as a man something like Grandfather a friend of his a kind of private and particular friend like we used to think of Grandfather's desk not to touch it not even to talk loud in the room where it was I always thought of them as being together somewhere all the time waiting for old Colonel Sartoris to come down and sit with them waiting on a high place beyond cedar trees Colonel Sartoris was on a still higher place looking out across at something and they were waiting for him to get done looking for him to get done looking at it and come down Grandfather wore his uniform and we could hear the murmur of their voices from beyond the cedars they were always talking and Grandfather was always right.
did Mother set Jason to spy on you I wouldn't have.
Women only use other people's codes of honor it's because she loves Caddy staying downstairs even when she was sick so Father couldn't kid Uncle Maury before Jason Father said Uncle Maury was too poor a classicist to risk the blind immortal boy in person he should have chosen Jason because Jason would have made only the same kind of blunder Uncle Maury himself would have made not one to get him a black eye the Patterson boy was smaller than Jason too they sold the kites for a nickel a piece until the trouble over finances Jason got a new partner still smaller one small enough anyway because T.P. said Jason still treasurer but Father said why should Uncle Maury work if he Father could support five or six niggers that did nothing at all but sit with their feet in the oven he certainly could board and lodge Uncle Maury now and then and lend him a little money who kept his Father's belief in the celestial derivation of his own species at such a fine heat then Mother would cry and say that Father believed his people were better than hers that he was ridiculing Uncle Maury to teach us the same thing she couldn't see that Father was teaching us that all men are just accumulations dolls stuffed with sawdust swept up from the trash heaps where all previous dolls had been thrown away the sawdust flowing from what wound in what side that not for me died not. It used to be I thought of death as a man something like Grandfather a friend of his a kind of private and particular friend like we used to think of Grandfather's desk not to touch it not even to talk loud in the room where it was I always thought of them as being together somewhere all the time waiting for old Colonel Sartoris to come down and sit with them waiting on a high place beyond cedar trees Colonel Sartoris was on a still higher place looking out across at something and they were waiting for him to get done looking for him to get done looking at it and come down Grandfather wore his uniform and we could hear the murmur of their voices from beyond the cedars they were always talking and Grandfather was always right.
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
What Is A Blog?
A blog (short for "weblog") is an online journal where people can write about whatever they want, post pictures instantly from computers or cell phones, and link to other blogs and websites.
Want to start your own blog? Here are a few places that are good for blogging:
Blogspot
Myspace
LiveJournal
Elowel
Want to start your own blog? Here are a few places that are good for blogging:
Blogspot
Myspace
LiveJournal
Elowel
How I Got The Idea To Creat A Blog
I originally was planning on writing a story in the stream of consciousness style for my Exhibition paper, but my creativity decided to leave for a few weeks, so instead I decided I would write an informative paper about stream of consciousness. In order to get my head in the game, I Googled "Stream of consciousness style" and after the first few articles (all encyclopedia definitions of the term) there were blog posts where the bloggers wrote in stream of consciousness. It wasn't until I came across this article that I realized I had been writing in the stream of consciousness style on my blog since 8th grade! After that, I began thinking about what I could do for my project and decided to make a blog with all of my Exhibition work. What's cooler than a blog about blogs and Exhibition ?
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
My Exhibition Log for The Sound and the Fury
Well, it turns out we didn't need to keep an Exhibition log. However, I decided to keep one for The Sound and The Fury. Just writing summaries of what I read and my thoughts about the book have really helped me understand it. So, without further ado, here is my Exhibition log.
The Sound and the Fury
by William Faulkner
by William Faulkner
April 19th, 2008
Pg.1-77. The first part of The Sound and the Fury is told from the point of view of Benjy, the mentally challenged son in the Compson family. There are four main events that we keep jumping back and forth between.
The most recent event is the day of April 7th, 1928. It starts out with Luster and Benjy watching two men play golf while looking for a lost quarter. We find out that the golf course used to be a pasture that belonged to the Compsons. While walking back to the house, Benjy interrupts Miss Quentin and a man from the carnival on the swing. This reminds Benjy of the time that he interrupted Caddy and a man on the swing. Miss Quentin is angry and runs off. At dinner that night, Miss Quentin gets angry at Jason for telling her she shouldn't see the man anymore. Miss Quentin says they should send Benjy to Jackson so he wouldn't bother her anymore.
Another event that we witness is the day of the Compson children's grandmother's funeral. Caddy is playing in the pond when Quentin tells her not to because she will get muddy. The two end up splashing each other and getting wet and muddy. On the way home for dinner, Jason says that he's going to tell on them. After dinner, the children sneak out and Caddy climbs up the tree to watch the "party". Frony, one of the servant kids, says it's a funeral.
Another event we see is Caddy's wedding. I"m not too sure as to what happens, but Quentin isn't happy and Benjy falls off of a box.
Finally, there is the event of Benjy's castration after he gets through the gate and attacks a girl.
April 28th, 2008
Pg.77-180. This section of The Sound and the Fury is told from Quentin's point of view. There are three main events that we witness.
The first is the day that Quentin commits suicide. He wakes up late and ends up skipping class. He buys two six-pound weights and hides them for later. Quentin walks along the river thinking about Caddy, when he comes across some boys who are fishing. He talks to them for a while and then walks into town and stops by a store to get some bread. In the store there is a little girl whom he calls "sister." Quentin buys her some bread and walks with her for a little while. When he tries to leave her, she follows him so he tries to find her house. After walking for a while, a police officer and the girl's brother stop him and he is arrested for kidnapping. While walking to the jail, they run into his friends who help get the judge to set Quentin free. Gerald, Quentin's aquaintence, gets drunk and says something demeaning about women which makes Quentin andgry and they get in a fight. Quentin loses and goes back to his room before leaving, putting the weights in his coat and jumping off the bridge.
The second event is when he confronts Caddy about her promiscuity. Caddy is pregnant with Dalton Ames' child and marrying Herbert Head because she has to get married before people know she is pregnant. Quentin does not like either man and ends up losing in a fight with Dalton.
The third event is when Quentin tells his father that he has committed incest. His father knows he didn't and tht he's just trying to cover for Caddy.
A few other things we learn are that uncle Maury loved money. Also, Mrs.Compson loved Jason most out of her four children because he is the only one who acts like her. The stream of consciousness writting is very hard to follow attimes. Quentin starts to become depressed and scattered and ultimately his point of view becomes harder to follow than that of his mentally challenged brother.
April 22nd, 2008
Pg.180-265. This section of The Sound and the Fury is told form Jason's point of view. Jason is a greedy and cruel man who hates women. He dispises his sister and her dauhter, Quentin (Miss Quentin).
This entire section takes place on April 6th, 1928. Throughout the day, Jason has to deal with Miss Quentin who often skips school to go around with boys.
In one part of the book, Jason expresses how much he dislikes pigeons. I think that the pigeons symbolize women and how much he hates them.
April 26th, 2008
Pg.256-221. This section was told in a third person style, giving us the only unbias view into the Compsons' lives. Dilsey takes Benjy to church with them and comments on how she's seen the beginning and now the end of the Compson family.
Jason finds that Quentin has left with the man from the carnival, and has stolen all of her mother's money back. Jason goes to get a police officer, but won't answer their questions about the money. He tries to find the two, but gives up and goes home. On his way home, he sees the Compsons' carriage going the wrong way through the cematary, and hears Benjy's crying. He goes to help and yells at Luster for upsetting Benjy. This is probably the nicest thing he's done in the whole book. The book ends with Benjy quiet and everything "...in its ordered place."
Pg.1-77. The first part of The Sound and the Fury is told from the point of view of Benjy, the mentally challenged son in the Compson family. There are four main events that we keep jumping back and forth between.
The most recent event is the day of April 7th, 1928. It starts out with Luster and Benjy watching two men play golf while looking for a lost quarter. We find out that the golf course used to be a pasture that belonged to the Compsons. While walking back to the house, Benjy interrupts Miss Quentin and a man from the carnival on the swing. This reminds Benjy of the time that he interrupted Caddy and a man on the swing. Miss Quentin is angry and runs off. At dinner that night, Miss Quentin gets angry at Jason for telling her she shouldn't see the man anymore. Miss Quentin says they should send Benjy to Jackson so he wouldn't bother her anymore.
Another event that we witness is the day of the Compson children's grandmother's funeral. Caddy is playing in the pond when Quentin tells her not to because she will get muddy. The two end up splashing each other and getting wet and muddy. On the way home for dinner, Jason says that he's going to tell on them. After dinner, the children sneak out and Caddy climbs up the tree to watch the "party". Frony, one of the servant kids, says it's a funeral.
Another event we see is Caddy's wedding. I"m not too sure as to what happens, but Quentin isn't happy and Benjy falls off of a box.
Finally, there is the event of Benjy's castration after he gets through the gate and attacks a girl.
April 28th, 2008
Pg.77-180. This section of The Sound and the Fury is told from Quentin's point of view. There are three main events that we witness.
The first is the day that Quentin commits suicide. He wakes up late and ends up skipping class. He buys two six-pound weights and hides them for later. Quentin walks along the river thinking about Caddy, when he comes across some boys who are fishing. He talks to them for a while and then walks into town and stops by a store to get some bread. In the store there is a little girl whom he calls "sister." Quentin buys her some bread and walks with her for a little while. When he tries to leave her, she follows him so he tries to find her house. After walking for a while, a police officer and the girl's brother stop him and he is arrested for kidnapping. While walking to the jail, they run into his friends who help get the judge to set Quentin free. Gerald, Quentin's aquaintence, gets drunk and says something demeaning about women which makes Quentin andgry and they get in a fight. Quentin loses and goes back to his room before leaving, putting the weights in his coat and jumping off the bridge.
The second event is when he confronts Caddy about her promiscuity. Caddy is pregnant with Dalton Ames' child and marrying Herbert Head because she has to get married before people know she is pregnant. Quentin does not like either man and ends up losing in a fight with Dalton.
The third event is when Quentin tells his father that he has committed incest. His father knows he didn't and tht he's just trying to cover for Caddy.
A few other things we learn are that uncle Maury loved money. Also, Mrs.Compson loved Jason most out of her four children because he is the only one who acts like her. The stream of consciousness writting is very hard to follow attimes. Quentin starts to become depressed and scattered and ultimately his point of view becomes harder to follow than that of his mentally challenged brother.
April 22nd, 2008
Pg.180-265. This section of The Sound and the Fury is told form Jason's point of view. Jason is a greedy and cruel man who hates women. He dispises his sister and her dauhter, Quentin (Miss Quentin).
This entire section takes place on April 6th, 1928. Throughout the day, Jason has to deal with Miss Quentin who often skips school to go around with boys.
In one part of the book, Jason expresses how much he dislikes pigeons. I think that the pigeons symbolize women and how much he hates them.
April 26th, 2008
Pg.256-221. This section was told in a third person style, giving us the only unbias view into the Compsons' lives. Dilsey takes Benjy to church with them and comments on how she's seen the beginning and now the end of the Compson family.
Jason finds that Quentin has left with the man from the carnival, and has stolen all of her mother's money back. Jason goes to get a police officer, but won't answer their questions about the money. He tries to find the two, but gives up and goes home. On his way home, he sees the Compsons' carriage going the wrong way through the cematary, and hears Benjy's crying. He goes to help and yells at Luster for upsetting Benjy. This is probably the nicest thing he's done in the whole book. The book ends with Benjy quiet and everything "...in its ordered place."
The Sound and the Fury
The first book that I read was The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner.
The Sound and the Fury was published in 1929 and its main setting is April, 1928 in Mississippi (only eight months before the big stock market crash of 1928, which lead to the Great Depression). Three out of its four chapters are written in the stream of consciousness style, and each of those three chapters is told by a different Compson boy. The Compson family slowly decays throughout the book and by the end of it has completely fallen apart. The family members are as follows:
Jason Compson III: The father of the Compson children. He seems to favor Caddy and Quentin over Jason, perhaps that's because Caroline favors Jason because he shows less Compson characteristics than Caddy and Quentin. Jason III becomes an alcoholic and dies before the end of the book.
Caroline Compson: Originally a Bascomb until she married Jason III and became part of the Compson family. Caroline is the mother of all of the Compson children, but favors Jason over the others. She is a Hypochondriac of sorts (meaning she fears illness and constantly believes she is sick.) and it seems she has never been a great mother to the children, who seem to be raised mainly by the servants. Caroline tends to be bitter towards everyone and everything.
Quentin Compson: The oldest son in the family. Quentin adores his sister, Caddy, and would do anything to make it so she doesn't have to deal with the consequences of her actions. The Compsons sell their pasture so Quentin can go to Harvard. When Caddy gets married because she becomes pregnant out of wedlock, Quentin is devastated and gets in a fight with the father of Caddy's child, but ends up losing. At Harvard, Quentin becomes depressed and one day while wondering around town, he comes across a little girl who is lost. He spends the rest of his day trying to find her home and calls her "sister", perhaps he feels sorry for the girl and is reminded of Caddy. After finding her home and fighting with one of his friends when he makes a sexist comment, Quentin jumps off of a bridge and commits suicide.
Caddy Compson: The next eldest Compson child. Caddy is the only daughter and loves all of her brothers except Jason, who never seemed to like her. She is like a mother to Benjy and dotes on him whenever she can. She wants to do everything the boys do and can be very stubborn. Caddy becomes pregnant out of wedlock and decides to marry another man to save her family from the social stigma. Unfortunately, her husband finds out the child is not his and divorces her. Unable to take care of her daughter (whom she named "Quentin" after her brother), she is forced to give her to the remaining Compsons who are disgraced by her.
Jason Compson IV: The third child in the family. Though his mother loved him, Jason has always resented women. He's cold cruel, his only love is money and power over others. Jason never really liked Caddy, but when her husband divorces her, destroying his chance at going into the husband's banking business, he begins to loath her. Quentin got to go to Harvard instead of him and he despises Quentin for throwing all the money away and not only wasting his chance to succeed in life, but wasting Jason's. Jason now works at a store in town, but hates his job and the people he works with. Instead of giving the money Caddy sends to Miss Quentin, he keeps it and hoards it in his bedroom. He is always arguing with Miss Quentin who acts much too like her mother for his taste.
Benjy Compson: The last of the Compson children. Benjy was originally named Maury after his uncle, but when the Compsons find out that he is mentally retarded, they rename him Benjamin upon his mother's request. Benjy has three passions, fire, Caddy and the golf course that used to be the pasture that he would play in. He likes the golf course because he hears the golfers calling for their golf caddies. Caddy is the only person who truly loves him and he adores her.
Miss Quentin: Caddy's illegitimate child. Miss Quentin is a lot like her mother, she's wild and stubborn. Also like her mother, she is promiscuous. At the end of the book, Quentin runs away with a man from the carnival and takes all of the money that her mother had sent her over the years from Jason's room when he was at work.
Dilsey: The black, head servant of the Compsons. She sees the family progress from beginning to the very end and pretty much raises the children. Her three children and grandson all are servants as well and have all been caretakers of Benjy.
The Sound and the Fury was published in 1929 and its main setting is April, 1928 in Mississippi (only eight months before the big stock market crash of 1928, which lead to the Great Depression). Three out of its four chapters are written in the stream of consciousness style, and each of those three chapters is told by a different Compson boy. The Compson family slowly decays throughout the book and by the end of it has completely fallen apart. The family members are as follows:
Jason Compson III: The father of the Compson children. He seems to favor Caddy and Quentin over Jason, perhaps that's because Caroline favors Jason because he shows less Compson characteristics than Caddy and Quentin. Jason III becomes an alcoholic and dies before the end of the book.
Caroline Compson: Originally a Bascomb until she married Jason III and became part of the Compson family. Caroline is the mother of all of the Compson children, but favors Jason over the others. She is a Hypochondriac of sorts (meaning she fears illness and constantly believes she is sick.) and it seems she has never been a great mother to the children, who seem to be raised mainly by the servants. Caroline tends to be bitter towards everyone and everything.
Quentin Compson: The oldest son in the family. Quentin adores his sister, Caddy, and would do anything to make it so she doesn't have to deal with the consequences of her actions. The Compsons sell their pasture so Quentin can go to Harvard. When Caddy gets married because she becomes pregnant out of wedlock, Quentin is devastated and gets in a fight with the father of Caddy's child, but ends up losing. At Harvard, Quentin becomes depressed and one day while wondering around town, he comes across a little girl who is lost. He spends the rest of his day trying to find her home and calls her "sister", perhaps he feels sorry for the girl and is reminded of Caddy. After finding her home and fighting with one of his friends when he makes a sexist comment, Quentin jumps off of a bridge and commits suicide.
Caddy Compson: The next eldest Compson child. Caddy is the only daughter and loves all of her brothers except Jason, who never seemed to like her. She is like a mother to Benjy and dotes on him whenever she can. She wants to do everything the boys do and can be very stubborn. Caddy becomes pregnant out of wedlock and decides to marry another man to save her family from the social stigma. Unfortunately, her husband finds out the child is not his and divorces her. Unable to take care of her daughter (whom she named "Quentin" after her brother), she is forced to give her to the remaining Compsons who are disgraced by her.
Jason Compson IV: The third child in the family. Though his mother loved him, Jason has always resented women. He's cold cruel, his only love is money and power over others. Jason never really liked Caddy, but when her husband divorces her, destroying his chance at going into the husband's banking business, he begins to loath her. Quentin got to go to Harvard instead of him and he despises Quentin for throwing all the money away and not only wasting his chance to succeed in life, but wasting Jason's. Jason now works at a store in town, but hates his job and the people he works with. Instead of giving the money Caddy sends to Miss Quentin, he keeps it and hoards it in his bedroom. He is always arguing with Miss Quentin who acts much too like her mother for his taste.
Benjy Compson: The last of the Compson children. Benjy was originally named Maury after his uncle, but when the Compsons find out that he is mentally retarded, they rename him Benjamin upon his mother's request. Benjy has three passions, fire, Caddy and the golf course that used to be the pasture that he would play in. He likes the golf course because he hears the golfers calling for their golf caddies. Caddy is the only person who truly loves him and he adores her.
Miss Quentin: Caddy's illegitimate child. Miss Quentin is a lot like her mother, she's wild and stubborn. Also like her mother, she is promiscuous. At the end of the book, Quentin runs away with a man from the carnival and takes all of the money that her mother had sent her over the years from Jason's room when he was at work.
Dilsey: The black, head servant of the Compsons. She sees the family progress from beginning to the very end and pretty much raises the children. Her three children and grandson all are servants as well and have all been caretakers of Benjy.
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