Quentin

Quentin is an absolute lunatic. He is the one who should be sent to the insane asylum in Jackson, not Benjy. He over-dramatically breaks a clock and he spends his last day alive with a little Italian girl. I think this is because she reminds him of not only Caddy, but also Benjy. He calls her "sister" (Caddy), but I think this girl has to be an idiot like Benjy because he talks to her for hours and hours and she just stares at him. Then at the last second, she nonchalantly says "There's Julio." Something is off there. Also, he is clearly distressed over Caddy's sexual actions and for some reason believes either pulling a knife on her or crying incest will make things better. I can see why he wants to commit suicide (the whole virginity/nonexistent Southern values thing) but I would imagine that most people just do it on impulse and don't spend their last day alive wandering around Massachusetts. He is a strange boy who just succumbed to the pressure of attending Harvard and dealing with a hypochondriac mother with a flare for the dramatic. I liked the interesting spacing in the section and appreciated Faulkner's reference to Othello on p.148 (beast with two backs).