It's the inventiveness of the narrative that grabs me as well as the emotion in Quentin's section (poor fellow) and Dilsey's stocism in the face of all the Compson craziness. Faulkner captured the emotional states of everyone so brilliantly and to my knowledge, no one had tried and succeeded at that so well. A revolution in narrative, really, with the added patina/metaphor of the decline of the South. Why not give the book another try? Read section 1 (Benjy's section) after Quentin but before Dilsey.
For example, I detested "Death of a Salesman" in high school but can't open it now without tearing up because I finally appeciate how lost the Lomans are and how many others are just like them. I had to leave the Brian Dennehey B'way production because it made me too emotional-- Dustin Hoffman's version didn't do it for me. Then again, I loved "Catcher" in high school but think it's sophomoric whining now.
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Date: 2005-12-08 01:59 pm (UTC)From: (Anonymous)For example, I detested "Death of a Salesman" in high school but can't open it now without tearing up because I finally appeciate how lost the Lomans are and how many others are just like them. I had to leave the Brian Dennehey B'way production because it made me too emotional-- Dustin Hoffman's version didn't do it for me. Then again, I loved "Catcher" in high school but think it's sophomoric whining now.