Dilsie Chapter

This is it the final chapter of the Sound and the Fury. It was a fairly short chapter but that didn't make it any less important than the rest of them. This chapter was important in the fact that it wrapped up all of the important themes and plot points and left you with fewer questions but yet again still more questions. First of all the most important observation that can be made is that the Chapter title. April 8th 1928 takes place exactly one day after the Benjy chapter. This chapter is very important, It marks the end and the downfall of the Compson family and with this a major theme that keeps coming up throughout the book comes to a conclusion. This marks the end of the old ways of the South that I've been talking about in my other blogs. Mrs. Compson held on so tightly to these ways that she demonized all of her children except Jason who ended up leading the household in the end. It is also with the date that I mentioned earlier another important factor comes in to play. As I mentioned in Benjy's chapter his birthday was the day before this chapter took place. Benjy as I talked about was a symbol of Jesus and the resurrection, his birthday was the day before Easter and Benjy was 33 at the time, The age many biblical scholars say is the age when Jesus died. The Resurrection plays an important role in this story as well. It makes a symbolic appearance. The old ways of the South are dying but at the same time these two aforementioned factors provided as a symbol of rebirth and hope of new ways of the South. As you may have noticed earlier on the Chapter is not through the point of view of a main character, in fact this chapter takes place through the point of view of Dilsey, Jason's wife. This is important as well in the fact that this is providing an outside point of view of the Compson family and how their hold on the old ways is failing. These are all of the important and significant observations that I made throughout this chapter that may help you on your way to better understanding this important and symbolic novel. I will leave you the reader with a question that I felt needed to be brought up in this final blog. Time was an important theme in this novel as well as the ways of the South. So how did time play into this last chapter then? That's it guys thank you for reading my blog. I hope it helped.