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Mrs. Myers
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ReplyDeleteI'm a little bit baffled by Quentin. There's a refrence to "Miss Quentin and her beau" on page 30 in my book, but then on pg. 45, it says "Quentin got in the other one. He turned his face to the wall". So are there multiple Quentins and Benjy just doesn't know their real names?
ReplyDeleteHi Stephanie,
ReplyDeleteYes, there are two Quentins. The first is the oldest brother to Jason, Caddy, and Benjy. The second is is Caddy's daughter whom she named after her brother. As I read this book, I mark when the time frame shifts. This story moves through mental spaces rather than linear time. Why do you think Faulkner would do that?
Mrs. Myers
Faulkner accomplishes, both in his nonlinear view through Benjy and in his multiple viewpoints throughout the book, to breakdown the bias that is inherent in one unreliable narrator, rather making all the biases contribute to one unbiased view. The word genius comes to mind...
ReplyDeleteExcuse me not "accomplishes" but rather "strives".
ReplyDeleteI agree that we immediately know we have unreliable narrators, but what else is Faulkner "accomplishing" with the structure of the novel?
ReplyDeleteMrs. Myers
I haven't quite finished the book, but I get the idea that none of the characters know exactly what is going on. By giving us small, chaotic impressions from each character, we get the same fractured experience that we would in life, where certain details catch our attention, but there is no way of knowing how everything fits together unitl the very end.
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