All Is Right (Or Is It?): April 8th, 1928

So I read the final chapter of The Sound and The Fury, and let me just say, this book took so many turns I felt like I was driving on Lombard Street. Overall I wasn't expecting the book to end like it did but that doesn't mean that I didn't like the ending. I feel like Faulkner ended the book like he started it: a straightforward representation of a family in the South. This is fitting considering this is what I believe the book to overall be about. Faulkner is creating a motif of the social constructs of the Old South (that sound really smart!) and trying to get the reader to see how society is transitioning into one that is not as dependent on family and maintaining the dignity of the family name.

Crazy Jason: April Sixth, 1928

Well folks, we apparently got through the part of this novel where the story is impossible to follow, but with that comes a new challenge: we have to deal with how crazy Jason is. Before going into this chapter, I couldn't say much about Jason except for how he rudely treated Caddy, but after I feel like I can't say enough about him. For starters, he is controlling, insecure, a thief, and takes all of his missed opportunities in his life out on the child he is supposed to be taking care of. I found nothing redeeming about Jason in this chapter nor do I think I'll find any in future chapters. So without further ado, let's take a closer look at the character of Jason.

WHAT?!: June 2, 1910

In my progress of The Sound and The Fury, I have just finished the second chapter and all I can say is WHAT?! This chapter brought to life so many aspects of the Compson household that I didn't expect. The chapter is written with the view point of Quentin the oldest (I think) of the Compson children. Just for a brief understanding of the chapter, it begins in Quentin's dorm at Harvard with him talking about a watch. He then decides to skip class and go buy some weights. He then goes to a bridge where he commits suicide. All the while he is doing all this, he is thinking about his sister Caddy, and more specifically, her promiscuity. Quentin views it as shameful and feels ashamed of himself. In order to fix this, which I honestly don't know what he was thinking, he tells his father the Caddy's baby is his and that he committed incest. Again: WHAT?! That's as close as I can get to what happened in the chapter.