![]() The first section occurs on Benjy’s thirty-third birthday, the day before Easter 1928. ![]() ![]() The central tension of the story involves the three brothers’ individual obsessions with Caddy. After the Civil War the Compsons declined in wealth, morality, and sanity: Jason III is a philosophical but ineffective alcoholic and Caroline is a self-obsessed hypochondriac, and their children have a host of problems. The Compsons are an old, aristocratic Southern family from Jefferson, Mississippi. He is one of four children of Jason Compson III and Caroline Compson, along with Quentin, Jason IV, and Caddy. The novel’s first narrator is Benjy, a mute, mentally disabled man who experiences time as a series of muddled perceptions. ![]()
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