nch outside, Caddy looks into a rotting house where there exists no credible authority. Her father stares at his decanter while her neurotic mother lies in an upstairs room, hand perpetually over forehead.parents the children are left to run wild. Through their neglect and inactivity, the Compson parents emotionally mutilate each of their children. They all feel some sort of hunger . To satisfy her hunger, Caddy becomes mother to Benjy, and lover to her brother Quentin. Seeking the love she cannot find at home, because her mother is too ill to supply it, her father too drunk and misogynist, Caddy is seduced by Dalton Ames who abandons her. Her parents do all to conceal their daughter's disgrace. They marry her to Sydney Herbert Head, briefly. He leaves her when he finds out that she is pregnant. To save the face of the family Quentin says that he fathered the future child. I have committed, incest I said Father it was I it was not Dalton Ames. Thinking that the time itself created all the misfortunes of the family, Quentin tries to stop the time going - he breaks his watch, a gift of his father. In his sexual jealousy for his sister Quentin kills himself. Jason hardens in his meanness. He appropriates the money which Caddy gets to feed and bring up her little daughter Quentin (named in honour of her brother). He tries to send Benjy to the orphan-asylum.family has degraded economically, physically, and morally. The only moral centre is someone not of their blood: the black servant Dilsey and her son Luster. Dese funny folks , says Dilsey s son, Luster. Adod, I aint none of em. is a kind, humane and honest woman. She cares about Benjy. She is bold enough to tell Jason about his meanness.
Ernest Hemingway
1899-1961American authors have offered as powerful a definition of the twentieth-century hero as Ernest Hemingway. Hemingway s fiction presents a strict code of contemporary heroism. It centers on disillusionment with the conventions of an optimistic, patriotic society and a belief that the essence of life is Violence, from which there is no refuge. As Hemingway saw it, the only victory that can be won from life lies in a graceful stoicism, a willingness to accept gratefully life s few moments of pleasure.launched a new style of writing , so forceful in its simplicity that it became a measure of excellence around the world.Scott Fitzgerald s, Hemingway s own life bore a notable resemblance to the lives of his fictional characters.Hemingway was born in the Chicago suburb of Oak Park, Illinois, on July 21, 1899, and was educated at the local public schools. With his father, a physician, he spent much time hunting and fishing, and developed his love of nature and his sense of the hard rules for behaviour in the wild. All this acquainted him early with the kinds of virtues, such as courage and endurance, which were later reflected in his fiction. Growing up, Ernest boxed and played football devotedly, but he also wrote poetry, short stories, and a column for the school newspaper. His subjects were often war and its effects on the people, or contests such as hunting and bullfighting, which demand stamina and courage.finishing high school in 1917, Hemingway became a reporter for the Kansas City Star. Then, after an unsuccessful attempt to enlist in the army because of the boxing injury to his eye, he volunteered for Red Cross ambulance corps and was sent to the Italian front in World War I, where he was wounded in the knee. This wound was a central episode in both his real and his creative life. During his long convalescence in an Italian hospital, he fell in love with a nurse who became the model for Catherine Barkley, the heroine of his novel A Farewell to Arms.the armistice in 1918, he returned to Michigan.avid big game hunter, sport fisherman, and bullfight aficionado, Hemingway continued to have adventures and remained a productive and successful writer, transforming his observations and experiences into novels and short stories throughout his last three decades.1921, newly married and with a commission as a reporter for the Toronto Star , Hemingway set off for Paris. Here Hemingway worked at the craft of fiction and met other important writers, among them Scott Fitzgerald, James Joyce, and Ezra Pound. But most important, he met Gertrude Stein. She read all of his works and advised him to prune his description and to concentrate . Hemingway took ...
