The Sound and the Fury Lesson Plan

In this section, Benjy thinks often about death. What is significant about the confusion about the death of Damuddy and the family horse? How does death relate to the progression of time? If death is the end of time (at least for the dying person), then what does Benjy's inability to perceive the progression of time mean?

Death is a constant that comes for everyone and everything, whether a grandmother or a horse. But because Benjy cannot perceive the progression of time, he's not afraid of death. Without an understanding of death, Benjy lives in a perpetual present that is somehow more comforting, but deeply limited.

This section repeatedly draws connections between sex...