I realize that many people have already spoken about the similarities between Benjy and Quentin, but I feel that it is one of the most obvious topics while reading The Sound and the Fury.
When we read Benjy's section, it was easy to say that the strange descriptions and confusing punctuation were because of his mental retardation. When we got to Quentin's section, however, many things remained or worsened. He referred to "feel[ing] noon" and often interrupted his own sentences several times. Benjy showed us the world as well as he could, with almost no interpretation. Quentin, on the other hand, shows us interpretation without the world.
The format of Quentin's section, with its lack of punctuation and structure, made it difficult to understand. But what I really wonder is how accurate Quentin's portrayal of others' thoughts is. Once I figured out that it was no longer his own stream of consciousness (for example, his mother's martyr-like rant), I immediately began to question whether this was the true course of events/conversation, or if Quentin was simply inferring.
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