Why is everyone so messed up there? It's as if no one wants to be happy. Two people argue over a cigar and a nickel - which they got for free, three guys fight pointlessly about a hypothetical $25 fishing pole, the cops hate foreigners but would gladly arrest a university student simply because a foreigner accused him of kidnapping (a $6 bribe works things out though)...Quentin lives in a grey world indeed; it's no surprise that he feels out of place in this unfriendly Northeastern city. I can see why Quentin dislikes the world; he escapes a dysfunctional family, only to end up in a godawful slum of a city. Someone should have taken him to Disney World when he was a kid.
On an unrelated note, I wish Quentin would use more punctuation and capitalization. Especially with his conversations with Caddy; I get that it conveys a sense of desperation, but ugh, I'm sure many authors have been able to convey similar emotions without turning their works into gibberish. Still, it was much more understandable than Benjy's section...I guess that Ivy League education was put to good use.
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