The Sound and the Fury Principles Quotes

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

Quote #7

Like Father said down the long and lonely light-rays you might see Jesus walking, like. And the good Saint Francis that said Little Sister Death, that never had a sister. (2.2)

In this passage, Quentin cycles through religious figures who could become role models or guides for him. All he can determine, however, is that they’re different than he is – they never had sisters. In other words, no one can understand the pain and isolation that he’s feeling right now, because no one else has ever had to live with Caddy.

Quote #8

It was his club's boast that he never ran for chapel and had never got there on time and had never been absent in four years and had never made either chapel or first lecture with a shirt on his back and socks on his feet. (2.14)

Spoade offers a model for a different sort of Harvard student than Quentin is – one universally respected for following his own code of conduct.

Quote #9

Jesus walking on Galilee and Washington not telling lies. (2.17)

Religious and political figures – the central figures for Christianity and America – are some of the figures Quentin turns to as prototypical role models.