Dilsey Chapter.

I liked the Dilsey chapter the best out of all the previous chapters. I liked it because it was actually understandable, maybe because of the way it was narrated. It was narrated in the sense that everything was happening at that time, it wasn’t a series of memories being recalled, and people dwelling in the past, it was in regular time.
I noticed that Dilsey seemed to be the patient one who sort of knew everything about the household, but kept her mouth shut. What I thought was weird was how when she and Mrs. Compson were on the stairs, Mrs. Compson said something that really brought Dilsey down. Dilsey showed her emotions on her face, but didn’t let Mrs. Compson see her. Not letting Mrs. Compson see her reaction to the comment shows that Dilsey is a strong woman regardless of how she is treated.

Quentin/ Jason entry….

e”But to have them think that… I didn’t even know she had a report card. She told me last fall that they had quit using them this year. Jason is mad that he has been decieved, he is the one who is used to doing the decieving and for someone else to do it, he is extra frustrated.  And now for Professor Junkin to call me on the telephone and tell me if she’s absent one more time, she will have to leave school. Quentin didn’t really have much attention when she was growing up, so she goes out and skips school to leave with people who give her the attention she desires. She has been around someone who lied, and now she is doing it herself. Her mother was just as permiscuous as she is. The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree! How does she do it? Where does she go? You’re down town all day; you ought to see her if she stays on the streets.”

In this passage, Jason is sort of ranting, letting off some steam about the promiscuity of Quentin. He has been lied to, and put under the impression that she was telling the truth, and now he knows he has been lied to. I think it’s ironic how he feels angry for being lied to about grades, when he has stolen hundreds of dollars from Quentin. I think that is more serious then a report card. I don’t think he is concerned I think he just wants to be the one in control.

Jason sort of seems embarassed that someone not in the family has found out about it before him, Professor Junkin was the one who called him. He knew about this, before Jason did which shows to other people that he has been decived.

I think that is Quentin was raised differently she would have behaved differently growing up. She never really had a mother figure, and the figure she did have behaved exactly like her. The saying “the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree” shows it’s meaning between the relationships of Quentin and the people she grew up around, or was raised by.

“She smelled like trees. In the courner it was dark, but I could see the window. I squatted there, holding the slipper.  I couldn’t see it, but my hands saw it, and I could hear it getting night, and my hands saw the slipper but I couldn’t see myself, but my hands could see the slipper, and I squatted there, hearing it getting dark.” (Page 72).

In this passage Benjy is having a flashback. This passage isvery annoying due to the repetativeness and the utter fact that it doesn’t make sense with what Benjy was talking about before.
Benjy states multiple times throughout his chapter that “she smelled like trees”. She meaning Caddy. For some reason Benjy is obsessed with one time that Caddy got up and climbed a tree with dirty underwear. He obsesses over it, and brings it up multiple times in his chapter. It doesn’t really seem like an important thing for a person so dwell on.

Benjy keeps saying how he coudln’t see the slipper he was holding, but his hands could see it. Hands, don’t see, hands feel.  Benjy just keeps on restating that he can’t see anything, but his hands can see it. I think that might have something to do with his handicap. Or possibly since it was dark, he felt it alot and became famililar enough with it, that he could see it in his mind even if he didn’t have to use his eyes. Another thing he says is he could hear it getting night. Peopl don’t normally phrase recognizing that it’s night time with the word hear. I think that that shows the Benjy is more observant then he is thought to be. Because he could hear it getting night, he could hear the certain bugs that chirp, or certain noises from the street that only come at night. I think although Benjy has a handicap, he is quite observant to his surrounddings.