The Sound and the Fury Memory and the Past Quotes

How we cite our quotes: Citations follow this format: (Chapter.Paragraph)

Quote #10

"I've seed de first en de last," Dilsey said. […] "I seed de beginnin, en now I sees de endin." (4.280-282)

Dilsey’s the one character who recognizes Quentin’s running away as the end of the Compson family. She’s also the only one stable enough to recognize a difference between past, present, and future – between the beginning and the ending.