Regarding the book, The Sound and The Fury, pages 93-128
REALLY???? REALLY? MR. FAULKNER, YOU CANNOT BE SERIOUS!!!!!! MUST YOU REALLY HAVE THE POINT OF VIEW SWITCH TO QUENTIN?!!?!?!?!?!?! OF ALLLLL PEOPLE! THE ONLY ONE THAT I'VE HATED SO FAR!
Even as I read this through Quentin's point of view, I hate...it this person! Even when it is in Quentin's point of view I cannot tell if Quentin is male or female!!! ARRRGGGGH!
I am now resorting to Sparknotes which I really try not to use. I will return momentarily.
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*sob*Whyyyyyy? Sparknotes has confirmed that Quentin is male, at least...ugh stupid sparknotes revealed more than I wanted to know and has ruined things that I will find out later that were not to be revealed yet. But I am so danged convinced that Quentin is either, gender confused, schizophrenic, or that William Faulkner was not able to keep pronouns consistent with gender. Or even that when this was written William Faulkner was not sure of the content and never bothered to go back and edit to make Quentin understandable.
*deep confused despair*
Quentin is definately the only character that I have truly hated ever. EVER. *sigh**halfhearted attempt to regain sanity*
I really enjoyed reading Benjy's perception over Quentin's. Benjy was innocent and inbiased. Quentin...after reading only thirty or fourty pages of his point of view, I want to stab him through and crush his skull. Pardon the graphicness of it. I really do though. He is always speaking of incest and sisters and religion and school and time and guilt and roses and Dalton Ames and smell and luck and names and women being bitches and spying and women being evil and him protecting women. This is all so annoying and depressing and confusing and as I said before, I'd like to run him through, crush his skull, and perhaps push him off a cliff, although maybe not in that order. Run him through with a ... knife of some sort, push him off a cliff, Then crush is skull. Thank goodness he is only a fictional character.
*big breath*...
*exhale*
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| Quentin is described as having violet eyes and yellow hair |
Kay, well, with Quentin speaking we receive a more linear, less flashbacked piece. Quentin is educated, or in the process of. He is going to Harvard and uses intellectual terms such as reducto absurdum(we all should know what this logical fallacy is thanks to Boegel), paradox, and other high diction that I am unable to reference at the moment.
He is confusing from the beginning though(disregarding the pronoun confusion). He is first encountered in his room at Harvard where he is found skipping class and starts off into the town running errands of sorts.
He first takes his broken pocket watch to a jewellers to see if it could be fixed, after "dropping it and stepping on it accidentally in the night." We cannot take his words at face value because he buys flat-irons and wraps them up so they look like a package of shoes. He even tells someone that he's had his shoes half-soled. Back to the pocket watch, which his father gave him, Quentin discusses the concept of time in several places. He seems to be obsessed. He also speaks of incest, sisters, and a Dalton Ames over and over. Faulkner calls on smell a lot. Quentin speaks of roses and the smell. at least in passing.
Faulkner once again employs the tactic of train of thought narration as he did with Benjy but with (i have no better word for Quentin) a sane human being. His thought processes are not dependent on memories, as Benjy's is, but with some form of rational thought concerning time paradoxes, moral codes, redemption, among other things. The biggest change perhaps with Quentin is that he is an actual character that acts upon plot instead of just being a factor, instead of a player, as benjy is. His thought patterns resemble a normal persons'.
Where I have stopped to blog is right after the first section where there is no punctuation to be seen. This can be seen as how people think, no punctuation. His thoughts, besides occaisionally being void of punctuation, are reminiscent of how Mrs. Kearl speaks, with tangents that eventually return to the topic.
The most alarming ridiculous bout of pronoun confusion can be seen in this punctuationless section. I quote,"I thought that Benjamin was punishment enough for any sins I have committed I thought he was my punishment for putting aside my pride and marrying a man who held himself above me I dont complain I loved him above all of them because of it because my duty through Jason pulling at my heart all the while" I was so lost and confused here because this is in Quentin's point of view and I was unsure of gender and it speaks of Quentin being a mother of Benjamin and Jason and being married. I was not sure if it really was Quentin speaking or not but it was terribly horribly no good very bad just suckyly confusing.
I must stop before I break down from all of the holes Quentin has poked into my psyche that has let my sanity drip away.
Kloverfield Out
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