Analysis of "Quentin Section" of "Sound and Fury" by "Willaim Faulkner"

Quentin section : analysis Quentin section is the thought of a person who's living in that last moment of his life before committing suicide, where he is already dead and detached form the world, at a place where there is no time and the fragments of his past life mixing with his last day's events, are floating in from here and there. The language shows that he is losing control of himself. All the bits and …

…the recurring motifs in Quentin's internal narratives is the image of his sister in her wedding dress running towards him out of a mirror. It would appear that for Quentin the double as a male figure is associated with the shadow and the double as a female figure is associated with the mirror. So by drowning the shadow, Quentin is able to satisfy his incestuous desire and to punish it. <Tab/>