![]() One of the boys tells his companions that he would buy a horse and wagon with the money. This movement shows the ways that even though the material objects that they plan to buy with the money are not, in reality, theirs, they nevertheless make them theirs through the words that they speak. Quentin traces this process from the multitude of voices that move from unreality to possibility to probability to incontrovertible fact. Through their conversation, the boys create the world they want to inhabit. They all talked at once, their voices insistent and contradictory and impatient, making of unreality a possibility, then a probability, then an incontrovertible fact, as people will when their desires become words. They all talked about what they would do with twenty-five dollars. The boy’s statement that he would sell the rod gets the boys talking and their words overlap with one another, becoming a cacophony of sound. The boys hope that they will catch the large trout in the water because people have been trying to snag it for twenty-five years and “a store in Boston offers a twenty-five dollar fishing rod to anybody that can catch him.” The promise of the fishing rod gets the boys talking, and one says he would sell the rod and pocket the money. Today, I want to continue that discussion by zeroing in on a couple of more scenes in Quentin’s section, specifically the scene where he talks with the three boys who are going fishing and the scene were Quentin gets arrested for “kidnapping” the Italian girl.ĭuring his walk around Cambridge, Quentin encounters three boys who are going fishing. ![]() Last post, I started discussing the ways that William Faulkner, in The Sound and the Fury (1929), explores the ways that language and words construct meaning and social hierarchies.
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