The Sound and the Fury characters
The fate of this character is placed in the space of one day — June 2, 1910. Quentin's thoughts are turned into the past. He thinks about his sister Caddy, whom he loves very much. A Dalton Ames seduced caddy. Learning about Caddy's pregnancy, he decides to take the blame for himself...
Compson's father Jason — clever, skeptical and not quite healthy man. He has a certain opinion about time, history, humans, and society. The author has a positive attitude toward him. However, he is also as his wife, not an ideal parent, too interested in intellectual, logical matters...
Dilsey is the only source of stability in the Compson household. She is the permanent black housekeeper of the Compson family. Her children and then grandchildren have been working in Compson’s house all their lives. She is the only character detached enough from the Compsons’ downfall...
Jason represents the modern bourgeois order that came to replace the patriarchal past of the American South. This is the most down-to-earth character of all that appears in the book; he has a sober way of thinking and cold calculation in all things that surround him. As a child, Jason showed a...
Mrs. Compson is the mother of 4 children: Quentin, Candace, Jason and mentally deficient Benjy. She is always aching, considering herself sick, but in fact a healthy, manipulative, unpleasant, passive-aggressive woman. Her brother Maury, who lives with the Compsons, is a lazy alcoholic. After her...
Caddy is the central connecting image of the novel. We can see her character only through the prism of her three brothers and parents. Benjy sees his sister as a kind and beautiful woman and says that she ‘smells of trees.’ Caddy treats him well, pities her little brother, and he pays...
The reader gets acquainted with Benjy on the day of his 33rd birthday — April 7, 1928. It is a deaf-mute person with an underdeveloped psyche, completely helpless, whom others consider an idiot. Benjy doesn’t understand what is going on around him. He is not capable of speaking and...
is a poor girl that grew up under the strict supervision of Jason and without love from anyone in that family. In many ways she repeats the fate of her mother: she dives early into adulthood, also exists in conditions of deprivation and rigid treatment to her. Her mother sends her money but her...