“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.