How we cite our quotes: Citations follow this format: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #7
[…] she says Thank God if he had to be taken too, it is you left me and not Quentin. Thank God you are not a Compson, because all I have left now is you and Maury and I says, Well I could spare Uncle Maury myself. (3.182)
Uncle Maury’s the token useless family member in this novel. Everybody hates him – except, of course, his sister (Mrs. Compson).
Quote #8
It was not a girl's room. It was not anybody's room, and the faint scent of cheap cosmetics and the few feminine objects and the other evidences of crude and hopeless efforts to feminise it but added to its anonymity, giving it that dead and stereotyped transience of rooms in assignation houses. (4.146)
By the time Quentin grows up, the Compson house has become anything but a home. Her room is a reflection of this – it’s completely impersonal.