The Sound And The Fury

A teenaged Negro boy named Luster spends his Saturday watching aft(prenominal) Benjy, a severely retarded descendent of the aristocratic Compson family of Jefferson, Mississippi. It is Benjys ordinal birthday. Luster takes him around the Compson property, looking for a quarter that he lost, which he intends to use to buy a ticket to the render that has come to Jefferson that weekend. They wander by the golf course, by the drift branch where Benjy plays in the water, near the swing (where Miss Quentin is lounging with the universe with the red tie), and into the house, where Lusters mother Dilsey, the Compsons cook, is making dinner. Dilsey gives Benjy some birthday cake, afterwards which Luster takes Benjy into the library to play. Jason Compson, Benjys brother and head of the household, comes in, irritated that Benjy is in his presence. At a tense dinner, Jason is sharp with Miss Quentin, and Mrs. Compson, Jason and Benjys mother, is overwhelmed by a highly vocal self-pity.

Time and experience be unstable and off-kilter in Benjys mind. Everywhere Benjy and Luster travel throughout the day things Benjy sees and hears cause him to re-experience past events in his mind, and he seems to baffle no clear idea that there is a contrast between those past events and his present experience.



So when he hears a golfer call for his caddie, Benjy is suddenly back in a scene with his sister Caddy; when he sees the family coach-and-four, he is suddenly a little boy riding in the carriage with his mother. Benjys flashbacks leap wildly through time, but they tend to vagabond around a few specific events and periods in Benjys life.

On the day Benjys grandmother Damuddy died, Benjy, a very young boy, contend in the stream branch with Caddy, Jason, and...

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