![]() ![]() I tried the third brother, because Caddy was still to me too beautiful and too moving to reduce her to telling what was going on, that it would be more passionate to see her through somebody else’s eyes, I thought. I tried with another brother, and that wasn’t enough. And I tried first to tell it with one brother, and that wasn’t enough. It began with the picture of the little girl’s muddy drawers, climbing that tree to look in the parlor window with her brothers that didn’t have the courage to climb the tree waiting to see what she saw. Speaking at the University of Virginia in 1959, he said, The muddy drawers, Faulkner claimed, were the whole secret of the book. “Caddy was all wet and muddy behind,” Benjy says, and he and his brothers “watched the muddy bottom of her drawers” as she climbed the tree. ![]() Caddy and her brothers have just played in the creek, and Caddy’s underwear is wet and muddy. In the first section of William Faulkner’s 1929 novel, The Sound and the Fury, Benjy Compson recalls watching his sister, Caddy, climb up a tree so she can peer in the window at their grandmother’s funeral. ![]()
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