Blog Post: On a personal level, though I’m sure every reader of “Sound and Fury” may agree, it was almost impossible to keep up with the plot and the characters at a first glance of the novel. As discussed in class, time is an integral theme of “Sound and Fury”. The story is told from different perspectives, all with an altered sense of time. The first is by Benjy, who is a 30 year old trapped in the mind of a 3 year old. His order of time has more to do with his sense than with an actual clock. His memories are triggered more often than not by the memories and smells attached to his sister, Caddy Compson.  Quentin, Benjys’ brother is trapped by this idea of what time is. When he’s at Harvard, he is still traumatized by the actions of his sister Caddy. He can’t move on from the past. He finally loses his mind by obsessing on his past on how much time hasn’t changed and commits suicide. Not before visiting a pawnshop to get his broken watch fixed. The entire scene is Quentin being engulfed in this idea of his past memories and is obsessed with his Grandfathers watch, a symbol of how time doesn’t change. “I give it to you not that you may remember time, but you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all your breath trying to conquer it” (SAF 76). Jason on the other hand finds the idea of time to be useless. For him time, like everything else is something that can’t be wasted if it is for his need. He still can’t get over the past and forgive his sister for ruining his chances at a decent job, which is why his time is wasted away at a meaningless job both at work and at home taking care of his frail mother and Quentin, Caddys’ daughter.