Upon reading the 2nd section of The Sound and the Fury when Quentin narrates, I find it to be a much easier read. However, it’s just as messed up and twisted as the first section with Benjy as narrator. Both characters choose to tell the reader about past memories without actually telling the reader when they are switching back and forth, except with Quentin, its much easier to tell when he does so. I did find it really interesting that with both narrators, whenever they talked about past memories they almost ALWAYS mentioned Caddy. Its almost a little weird how much each narrator does talk about Caddy, especially because they are both her brothers. In the first section, when Benjy narrators, its seems as though he is almost obsessed with Caddy. He wails when going to the golf course because the term ‘caddie’ was thrown around and it reminded him of her. He also got so upset he got when she lost her virginity and he cried when Caddy told him that they cant sleep in the same bed anymore. It seems as though Caddy has an unhealthy relationship with her family members and it really creeps me out. Especially, in the second section Quentin tells the reader how he falsely tells his father that he committed incest with her. Why would anyone on earth ever want to tell someone that they committed incest especially when it wasn’t true?…(another part that completely freaked me out). I also thought it was really weird that on Caddy’s wedding day, Quentin tries to convince Caddy not to marry him and she responds with the fact that she has too because she is pregnant..although she does make it clear that she isn’t sure who the father is. Later on, Quentin also suggests running away with Caddy, and they could just live off of his life savings that he had for his education at Harvard. All of these past memories that the narrators keep telling the reader just keep adding up to GROSS! Its just so weird.
