Time in The Sound and the Fury

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past. Benjy does not want to accept that Caddy is gone. He believes and wants Caddy to always come home, even though she will not be coming home. Benjy represents what we most want, more time. There is never enough time to do everything we wanted to do, and yet we still try to accomplish it all. And when that time is available, it it wasted.

The second section in The Sound and the Fury is narrated by Quentin Compton, who is aware of the time passing by, but wishes it was not. Quentin “ tapped the crystal [of the watch] on the corner of the dresser” and “twisted the hands off”(51), trying to stop the time passing but “The watch ticked on”(51), still measuring out time by the seconds, but not keeping track of how many have passed, or are left. Quentin breaking his watch “gives us access to time without clocks” Jean-Paul Sartre says. Time without clocks can be infinite time, or none at all; there is nothing to tell you that you have a certain set time left, or you ...

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