Tear Jerker / The Sound and the Fury

• Benjy is a 33-year-old manchild with a profound mental retardation and no concept of time. The only family member that ever loved Benjy was his sister, Caddy, and he never saw her after she was disowned for her promiscuity. When he was a teenager, Benjy was castrated for inadvertently attacking a young girl and is incapable of speaking. Perhaps the worst is at the very end when Benjy starts crying about Caddy: "But he bellowed slowly, abjectly, without tears; the grave hopeless sound of all voiceless misery under the sun."
• Quentin's section is heartbreaking. Quentin was raised on old South values; perhaps most important to him is that a woman should be pure. When Quentin's sister, Caddy, loses her virginity in premarital sex, it destroys the foundation of his whole world. Quentin does everything he can to share in Caddy's guilt and atone for it: he suggests suicide and lies to his father about who slept with Caddy. His father tells him that everything he believed in is worthless. Being the anachronism that Quentin is, he drowns himself. There's a plaque at the Charles River in Cambridge, MA to honor him.