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April Seventh, 1928
This section is narrated by Benjy Compson, a 33-year-old man with a severe intellectual disability. His narration jumps without warning between different points in time, mostly be…
June Second, 1910
Quentin Compson narrates the day of his suicide at Harvard. His thoughts circle obsessively around Caddy's lost honor, his failure to protect her, and his inability to accept that…
April Sixth, 1928
Jason Compson IV narrates the day before Benjy's section, though the reader encounters it third. Jason is bitter, controlling, and openly cruel.
April Eighth, 1928
The final section shifts to a third-person narrator and focuses largely on Dilsey, the Black servant who has held the Compson household together for decades.
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