Quentin

    Quentin's chapter was quite the complicated read. I had already struggled at trying to grasp the lapses in time throughout Benjy's chapter, but it seems as though Quentin's was just a jumbled stream of consciousness. Although Benjy was able to maintain a state of "unbiased" throughout his narration, Quentin's overuse of "I" has made it difficult to discern was was real and what was a result of his own dispositions. It was almost frustrating because his use of I wasn't always consistent, sometime his recollections seemed as if he didn't even acknowledge his own presence even though he was talking directly about himself. 

Quentin has this absurd, compulsive obsession with time. From his grandfather'a watch to the sound of the bells. This indicates a certain mental ailment, potentially even more unstable then Benjy, and made his narration even more confusing. Not to mention the fact that this whole chapter takes place before Benjy's did, so I still have no grasp at the sequence of this overall novel. However, through Quentin's streamp of consciousness that seems to trump all boundaries of time, I am predicting that it  is a significant factor and theme of this book. 

Quentin's mental instability is also auppirted by his rigid obsession with honor, which is a cultural aspect, one rooted into the Deep South, but he takes it to another level. Both Benjy and Quentin share an intense love for Caddy, and when Caddy becomes pregnant by a foreign man, Quentin tries to convince his father that he and caddy have commited incest. 

It's the culmination of his obsession with time, honor, and blurry overuse of "I", that made Quentin's chapter not only confusing, but ultimately, very telling of his character.