novel also shows how the family is messed up on the inside when Benjy explains how his sister Caddy is very promiscuous. Throughout the novel, Benjy uses many symbols to show how his sister lives: “We watched the muddy bottom of her drawers” (31). The muddy drawers that Benjy mentions is a symbol of her sexually behavior. Although Caddy was one of the nicest people to Benjy underneath it all, she had some dirty secrets. Caddy’s behavior soon got her into lots of conflicts. Through her sexual behaviors, she has a relationship with another man while she was married, and the result is that she had a child and her husband leaves her to deal with the shame. When she goes back to her house the family does not want to deal with the embarrassment, so they kick her out and treat her daughter very bad, like it was her fault that her mother made the decisions that she did. The family then shows that they have a real problem when the son Quentin goes away to college. When the town people saw the family having their son go away to Harvard, they probably thought that things had to be good in that house. In reality the son had so many problems that it was unbearable to him. Quentin constantly had fantasies about being with his sister Caddy and it tore him up on the inside, because he know that the thoughts that he had about his sister was not supposed to be going through his head. When he felt that he was not going to be able to take the pressure of his family anymore, he decided that he was going to kill himself. He decided to kill himself because he knew that he was going to die on the inside because he did not know how to tell any one about the feelings that he was having on the inside for his sister.In comparison to these two-piece of art, they both go into depth about the false images that many families try to portray to the outside world. You should easily see how each of these families was caught in this obsessio...
