Benjy Chapter
What roles does Benjy play in the Compson family? What does his unique perspective show us about the Compsons? I think Benjy plays a very pure role in the Compson family. Although he is frequently and predominantly perceived as burdensome, he has an undeniable innocence that all the other Compsons lack. He is a very unorthodox version of a reliable narrator in that he is highly observant. Being mentally slow, he tells what things plain as he seems them free of judgment, bias, or assumption. He likes certain people more than others, his sister Caddy in particular, but he does not tell what he sees and experiences based on his liking for the people or the situation. He simply says what is. What might Benjy's need for consistency and his extremely strong nostalgia for the past say about the concept of family? About the South as a place? Benjy has in his own way a strong sense of family. He relies on them solely for his own well-being. The only people Benjy really has a strong ...