"The past is never dead; it's not even past."
"You put your girl up on a pedestal
Then you wait for her to fall."
•Quentin male placed Caddie on a pedestal of virginity, of course she will fall
"Women are never virgins. Purity is a negative state and therefore contrary to nature. It's nature is hurting you not Caddy" (116)
•Jason did not place girl Quentin on any pedestal, so she had no chance.. her life started with her already fallen.
"once a bitch always a bitch, what I say"' (180)
girl Quentin: "I don't see why I was ever born" (188).
"I'm bad and I'm going to hell, and I don't care. I'd rather be in hell than anywhere where you are" (189).
Mrs. Compson to baby Q girl: "You will never know the suffering you've caused" (199).
Jason to Mrs. Compson on girl Q: "you know just as well as I do what she's going to grow up into" (216).
Jason: "Like I say you can't do anything with a woman like that, if she's got it in her. If it's in her blood, you can't do anything with her. The only thing you can do is to get rid of her, let her go on and live with her own sort" (232).
Girl Q to Jason at dinner table: "'Whatever I do, it's your fault,' she says. 'If I'm bad, it's because I had to be. You made me. I wish I was dead. I wish we were all dead'" (260).
Quentin starts off a bitch, plagued by her blood, damned by her uncle, dreaded by her grandmother, kept separated from her mother. She has no positive future in the compson household... running off with the showboy, skipping school... it was what was expected of her, and so it is all she knew to do.
•Jason places his money up on a pedestal by buying into the stock market and ends up watching it fall as he looses money.
"'Way I do it,' I says, 'I never risk much at a time. It's the fellow that thinks he knows it all'"(192). This is an example of him being cocky with his money and thinking that he knows the stock market and can't be fooled. Another example is when he is advised to sell and he says to BUY!
"Teasing you along, letting you pile up a little paper profit, then bang! Your account closed at 20.62" (234). Jason lost $... his money fell off of the pedastel that he placed it on.
•Mrs. Compson places herself up on a pedestal above the rest of her family. She watches her family members fall away and never makes much of an effort to save them, for that would require her to get off of her pedestal.
"'It's in the blood. Like uncle, like niece. Or mother. I don't know which would be worse. I don't seem to care'" (299). Mrs. Compson feels poorly towards her husband's blood, his blood which has tainted her children and their children. By equating Jason to girl Quentin, she is inflicted all of Jason's insultive comments about Quentin onto himself.
"'Done in Mother's mind though. Finished. Finished. Then we were all poisoned"' (102)- Male Quentin's section
Mrs. Compson on Jason: "I knew then that he was to be my joy and salvation" (103)
Mrs. Compson in Quentin's section: "we are to sit back with our hands folded while she not only drags your name in the dirt but corrupts the very air your children breathe" (104).
•Benjy placed Caddy on a pedestal of maternal kindness, but her attention switched from him to boys.
"he pushed her out of the room his voice hammering back and forth as though there were no place for it in silence bellowing" (124)... Benjy's reaction to Caddy's lost of virginity.
Benjy saw Caddy with the boy on the swing
Caddy stopped smelling like trees.
"No man ever does that under the first fury of despair or remorse or bereavement he does it only when he has realised that even the despair or remorse or bereavement is not particularly important" (178 Quentin Male)
Then you wait for her to fall."
•Quentin male placed Caddie on a pedestal of virginity, of course she will fall
"Women are never virgins. Purity is a negative state and therefore contrary to nature. It's nature is hurting you not Caddy" (116)
•Jason did not place girl Quentin on any pedestal, so she had no chance.. her life started with her already fallen.
"once a bitch always a bitch, what I say"' (180)
girl Quentin: "I don't see why I was ever born" (188).
"I'm bad and I'm going to hell, and I don't care. I'd rather be in hell than anywhere where you are" (189).
Mrs. Compson to baby Q girl: "You will never know the suffering you've caused" (199).
Jason to Mrs. Compson on girl Q: "you know just as well as I do what she's going to grow up into" (216).
Jason: "Like I say you can't do anything with a woman like that, if she's got it in her. If it's in her blood, you can't do anything with her. The only thing you can do is to get rid of her, let her go on and live with her own sort" (232).
Girl Q to Jason at dinner table: "'Whatever I do, it's your fault,' she says. 'If I'm bad, it's because I had to be. You made me. I wish I was dead. I wish we were all dead'" (260).
Quentin starts off a bitch, plagued by her blood, damned by her uncle, dreaded by her grandmother, kept separated from her mother. She has no positive future in the compson household... running off with the showboy, skipping school... it was what was expected of her, and so it is all she knew to do.
•Jason places his money up on a pedestal by buying into the stock market and ends up watching it fall as he looses money.
"'Way I do it,' I says, 'I never risk much at a time. It's the fellow that thinks he knows it all'"(192). This is an example of him being cocky with his money and thinking that he knows the stock market and can't be fooled. Another example is when he is advised to sell and he says to BUY!
"Teasing you along, letting you pile up a little paper profit, then bang! Your account closed at 20.62" (234). Jason lost $... his money fell off of the pedastel that he placed it on.
•Mrs. Compson places herself up on a pedestal above the rest of her family. She watches her family members fall away and never makes much of an effort to save them, for that would require her to get off of her pedestal.
"'It's in the blood. Like uncle, like niece. Or mother. I don't know which would be worse. I don't seem to care'" (299). Mrs. Compson feels poorly towards her husband's blood, his blood which has tainted her children and their children. By equating Jason to girl Quentin, she is inflicted all of Jason's insultive comments about Quentin onto himself.
"'Done in Mother's mind though. Finished. Finished. Then we were all poisoned"' (102)- Male Quentin's section
Mrs. Compson on Jason: "I knew then that he was to be my joy and salvation" (103)
Mrs. Compson in Quentin's section: "we are to sit back with our hands folded while she not only drags your name in the dirt but corrupts the very air your children breathe" (104).
•Benjy placed Caddy on a pedestal of maternal kindness, but her attention switched from him to boys.
"he pushed her out of the room his voice hammering back and forth as though there were no place for it in silence bellowing" (124)... Benjy's reaction to Caddy's lost of virginity.
Benjy saw Caddy with the boy on the swing
Caddy stopped smelling like trees.
"No man ever does that under the first fury of despair or remorse or bereavement he does it only when he has realised that even the despair or remorse or bereavement is not particularly important" (178 Quentin Male)