Submitted by chlester0@gmail.com on Mon, 2014-08-18 18:28
The grandson of Pappy Thompson, Roz is there when Joe Christmas disrupts the church service and knocks the old man down. The "six foot tall" Roz is so furious that he pulls out his razor hollering "I'll kill him" (323). The Negroes in the church think Joe is 'white,' and they try to restrain Roz, but according to a member of the congregation, he didn't "care much who he had to cut to carve his path . . . to where that white man was" (324). Joe defeats his attack, however, by knocking him down too, with a bench, and fracturing his skull.
Submitted by chlester0@gmail.com on Mon, 2014-08-18 18:23
He is the seventy-year-old deacon of an African-American church in Yoknapatawpha who is knocked from the pulpit to the mourner's bench when he tries to talk to Joe.
During the last day of his life Quentin rides on a number of "cars" (85, 86, 105, etc.), by which he refers to the trolleys that run on various streets around Cambridge. During the early 20th century the Boston area was served by a number of streetcar lines, but it is doubtful that Faulkner had specific routes in mind. It seems more important thematically to suggest both the restlessness of Quentin's movements and the way in which he seems to keep trying to find an escape from time - clocks chiming, shadows, factory whistles, etc.
During the last day of his life Quentin Compson rides on a number of "cars" (The Sound and the Fury, 85, 86, 105, etc.), by which he refers to the trolleys that run on various streets around Cambridge and Boston. During the early 20th century these urban areas were served by a number of streetcar lines, but it is doubtful that Faulkner had specific routes in mind. It seems more important thematically to suggest both the restlessness of Quentin's movements and the way in which he seems to keep trying to find an escape from time - clocks chiming, shadows, factory whistles, etc.
