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Tomorrow And Tomorrow Sound And The Fury
1,453 wordsThe Sound and the Fury is the story of disintegration of a Southern family, the Compson's, due to the lost of real love, concerns, and understanding for the others. Compson family had a good start; Quentin Compson II governed the state, and Jason II was a general. But Jason III is drinking his life away and his children are even worse; one commits suicide, another disgraced herself, the third child Jason is a thief, and the fourth is an idiot. In order to present a good overview of the Compson f...
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Sound And The Fury Compson Family
1,084 wordsIn one sense, The Sound and the Fury takes place during Easter weekend, 1928. A carnival comes to Jefferson, Mississippi, where the Compson family lives. Mrs. Compson, a selfish, complaining woman, lies in bed all day while the black housekeeper, Dilsey, cooks and cleans. Mrs. Compson is a widow with two sons. Jason, who works in a hardware store, supports the family. The younger son, Benjamin, usually called Benjy, is an idiot. At thirty-three, he still has the mind of a child. Benjy is looked ...
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Sound And The Fury Stream Of Consciousness
2,250 wordsWilliam Faulkner "[I] discovered that my own little postage stamp of native soil was worth writing about and that I would never live long enough to exhaust it, and that by sublimating the actual into the apocryphal I would have complete liberty to use whatever talent I might have to its absolute top. It opened up a gold mine of other people, so I created a cosmos of my own. " (William Faulkner) When we think of the best American writers of the 20 -th century, the first names that come to our min...
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Compson Family Family Honor
857 wordsQuentin Quentin is the oldest child of the Compson family. He is a very intelligent boy. When he is preparing to go to Harvard, and his family sells a large land to a local golf club in order to afford the funds to send him there. We understand that Quentin s future is very important for the family. He is the honor of the Compson family. I think Quentin is the most qualified person in the family because His brother, Benjamin is a speechless idiot who is always crying and moaning. His other broth...
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Sound And The Fury Lay Dying
956 wordsThe Women of Yoknapatawpha County Faulkner's intrinsic portrayal of his characters using his signature stream of consciousness style left much room for discussion on the true nature of his characters, however his portrayal of women was obviously that of despair as the female characters never transcended their lowly confinement. Caddy Compson was a victim of the dysfunctional family, whose attempt to reject it landed her even worse off. Addie Bundren was also a victim, a victim of an indolent hus...
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Rest Of The Family Dinner Table
1,273 wordsSeveral times throughout The Sound and the Fury, as in other novels, are scenes in which the family, or parts of it, is sitting down at the dinner table for a meal. In Jason s section, there is a particular scene in which this occurs. At this point in time, the Compson family consists of Jason, his mother, Quentin and Ben, and Dilsey and Luster. The scene begins by Jason refusing to eat dinner, or even go to the dinner table, until his mother and Quentin come down to accompany him. This situatio...
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