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Benjy Compson in The Sound and the Fury
Let’s start at the very beginning. It’s a very good place to start. Unless, of course, you’re a reader of The Sound and the Fury. In that case, starting in Benjy’s world can be a bit of a nightmare. Don’t get us wrong Benjy’s a nice enough guy (lunlike some other characters that we can think of. He’s just not the easiest man in the world to foll then Benjy’s thirty three in 1928. As one of the neighbors sarcastically quips, however, it’s like he’s been three for thirty years. Benjy is mentally handicapped. He’s unable to talk, which becomes one of the most intriguing aspects of his section of the novel. How do we begin to enter the world of a character whose perspective on life is utterly unshaped by communication with other people
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Benjy Compson is a mute, disabled man who behaves like a child of three years even when he is thirty three years old.
Explanation:
- "The Sound and The Fury" is a novel by William Faulkner which was published in 1929 and focuses on the destruction of the Compson family, who live in the American South in Jefferson, Mississippi.
- Benjy Compson is the fourth child in the Compson family who is mentally disabled and hence shunned by the rest of his family members, except for Caddy.
- He has no idea about abstract concepts and has the mentality of a child even though he's an adult.