While Hannah makes a good point that it is this unattainable idea of the old south that makes Quentin the distraught alice, I would have to disagree with her that it is not his mind. I feel like the main issues that plague Quentin all come from his mind. This idea of the Old south is simply a manifestation of this past that Quentin longs for. Something that I noticed about Jason's passage is that it is written in present tense. This made me see a trend in both Benji's and Quentin's parts... they are both written in mostly past tense with constant flashbacks as neither has a future. Quentin's haunted wonderland is his obsession with the past, and his inability to escape it and to move into the future. He is so trapped in the past with these concepts of the old south, caddy's virginity... things that no longer exist, that he is unable to move forward and live a normal life.