Benjy Compson is the narrator of the first part of the novel entitled “On April 7, 1928” this date represents Benjy's thirty-third birthday. Throughout this section reader discover Benjy’s world and his innermost thoughts from the morning until night. The section reports only one day. Because of Benjy’s limited cognitive skills which render him unable to distinguish time, readers are guided throughout his narrative by the change of his servants: each one represents a particular moment in his life and, in some way, compensate the lacking time indicators. Accordingly, Benjy is never left alone and always accompanied either by Luster, or T.P., or Versh, or Caddy, or Dilsey, or others.
Because of his mental disability, Benjy is unable to distinguish …show more content…
One memory directs to another until these memories form a chain of events that are narrated, in the case of Benjy’s section, without any logical order. For example, in the first section we can follow Benjy in his stream of consciousness as he jumps from one event to another. Benjy reports: “I went and Father lifted me into the chair too, and Caddy held me. She smelled like trees” afterward, he picks from caddy’s smell that leads him to another memory and continues his narration: “She smelled like trees. In the corner it was dark but I could see the window …come on here to bed, so I can get up there before it starts. I can’t fool with you all night tonight. Just let them horns toot the first toot and I done game” subsequently, his narration shifts to a third element, their room, and Benjy continues in his narration We didn’t go to our room. This is where we have the measles. Caddy said” for Benjy, one memory leads to another, thus he moves from the memory of his father and caddy’s smell to another memory of Caddy’s smell and their bedroom, which eventually leads him to third memory about their room. He constantly intermingles memories of past and present because he is unaware of the absence of logical connection between these different
Because of his mental disability, Benjy is unable to distinguish …show more content…
One memory directs to another until these memories form a chain of events that are narrated, in the case of Benjy’s section, without any logical order. For example, in the first section we can follow Benjy in his stream of consciousness as he jumps from one event to another. Benjy reports: “I went and Father lifted me into the chair too, and Caddy held me. She smelled like trees” afterward, he picks from caddy’s smell that leads him to another memory and continues his narration: “She smelled like trees. In the corner it was dark but I could see the window …come on here to bed, so I can get up there before it starts. I can’t fool with you all night tonight. Just let them horns toot the first toot and I done game” subsequently, his narration shifts to a third element, their room, and Benjy continues in his narration We didn’t go to our room. This is where we have the measles. Caddy said” for Benjy, one memory leads to another, thus he moves from the memory of his father and caddy’s smell to another memory of Caddy’s smell and their bedroom, which eventually leads him to third memory about their room. He constantly intermingles memories of past and present because he is unaware of the absence of logical connection between these different