Submitted by grdenton@memphis.edu on Wed, 2014-06-04 17:42
Jason refers to the people whom he pays to advise him on his cotton speculations in several different ways: "some people who're right there on the ground" in New York (192), "those rich New York jews" (193), and so on. Included in this group, according to him, is "one of the biggest manipulators in New York" (192). The labels he uses say much more about his own anti-semitism than they do about Wall Street analysts.
Submitted by napolinj@newsch... on Wed, 2014-06-04 17:29
For at least some of the time the Compson children are growing up, their Uncle Maury is having an affair of some kind with Mrs. Patterson, the married woman who lives next door. The first memory that appears in Benjy's section is of him and Caddie carrying a note from their uncle to her just before Christmas, 1903; they cross the frozen "branch" (or creek) and walk through "the brown, rattling flowers" in the Pattersons' garden that lies alongside their house. Later Maury sends Benjy with notes by himself; on the occasion Benjy recalls doing that, it is not winter and Mr.
Submitted by napolinj@newsch... on Wed, 2014-06-04 17:26
During the years covered by the Benjy's and Quentin's memories, the barn at the back of the Compson place contains a number of horses and cows, with a pen next to it for the family's pigs. By the time Benjy passes it in 1928, the "stalls are all open" and the "roof is falling" apart (12), though the aged horse Queenie is still there someplace.
