Submitted by jburgers@gc.cuny.edu on Mon, 2014-08-11 12:10
Charlie is one of the boys with whom Caddy explores her sexual desires in adolescence, the only named one before Dalton Ames. Charlie and Caddy are being intimate on the swing in the Compson backyard when Benjy interrupts them. Charlie's reaction to Benjy's anguish is very callous: noting that her brother "cant talk," he continues to "put his hands on Caddy" (47) and gets angry when Caddy leaves with Benjy.
Submitted by rlcoleman@usout... on Mon, 2014-08-11 10:48
Referred to in Flags in the Dust as "the fattest man" in Yoknapatawpha, "Doc Peabody" is the only character to appear in each of the first three Yoknapatawpha novels. Quentin thinks of him by name only once in The Sound and the Fury (where he gives his weight as "three hundred pounds," 128), but he is probably also the doctor who sets and then has to re-set Quentin's leg after he breaks it (113).
