The Sound and the Fury

by William Faulkner

I could smell it more than ever,

“He smell it.” T. P. said.

Luster

T. P.

A snake crawled out from under the house.

T. P.

T. P.

while I get that box so we can see in the window.

muddy

Caddy, with flowers in her hair, and a long veil like shining wind.

T. P. fell up the hill, into the moonlight, and

Caddy put her arms around me, and her shining veil, and I couldn’t smell trees anymore and I began to cry.

“What is it, Benjy. What has Caddy done.”

“Just because you are fourteen, you think you’re grown up, dont you.” Jason said.

I could hear the water.

I could hear the water.

I couldn’t hear the water,

Caddy smelled like trees.

She took up the bottle

“Sweet. Smell.

bottle of perfume. Just look here, Roskus.” Caddy smelled like trees.

She smelled like trees.

We looked up into the tree where she was.

“You, Satan.”

“Come down from there.”

“Where’s Quentin.”

Luster

Miss Quentin and her beau in the swing yonder.

one in the swing. Caddy came fast,

Caddy took the kitchen soap and washed her mouth at the sink, hard.

Caddy smelled like trees.

red

“Agnes Mabel Becky.”

“They comes every night she can climb down that tree. I dont keep no track of them.”

Miss Caddy done gone long ways away. Done got married and left you. You cant do no good, holding to the gate and crying.

I tried to say,

trying to say,

trying to say.

How did he get out,

Mr Burgess

I was trying to say,

trying to say,

was trying...

I tried to cry. But when I breathed in, I couldn’t breathe out again to cry,

I tried to keep from falling off the hill and I fell off the hill into the bright, whirling shapes.

Caddy.” he whispered. “Caddy. Beller now. Caddy.”

Mother was telling him his new name.

before Jason come. I dont want him jumping on me about a cake

the bright, smooth shapes went again.

His name’s Benjy now, Caddy said.