ENG250Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Compson Family, Datura Stramonium, Ralph Waldo Emerson
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; flo(cid:449)ers, jimson weed, etc: various symbols be interpreted with symbolic significance; others appear totally devoid. Idea of being able to see and perceive: constant tension between loss and replacement. Issue at the heart of the novel: the loss of caddy is the generative event at the heart of the book, the end of generation as well as continuance through pregnancy. Loss of caddy tied to loss of land, et(cid:272) . Lower-(cid:272)ase (cid:862)i(cid:863) represe(cid:374)tati(cid:448)e of the disi(cid:374)tegrated self: narration of a certain section takes place when quentin is unconscious. Incest the most graphic example of preserving homogeneity. Jason sr. ; does not invest in ideals like virginity, but has a consciousness of the way said values are constituted by language: quentin and the italian girl, antithesis to the impotence of quentin, jason, benjy. Julio"s a(cid:272)ti(cid:448)e seeki(cid:374)g of his lost sister like (cid:449)ith cadd(cid:455) a(cid:374)d (cid:449)hat"s his (cid:374)a(cid:373)e, a sister take(cid:374) a(cid:449)a(cid:455), stole(cid:374) .
