Final Chapter/Blog

As I made it to the end of this novel, many things started to clear up for me. The Compson family dynamic as well as each sibling's personal stories were more clear when reading both Jason and Dilsey's chapters. I think Faulkner ended his story purposefully with Dilsey's point of view in order for the reader to tie his conclusions and assumptions together. Dilsey oversees everything in the Compson household, seems to be the most sane and to me it feels like she's really running the show. 

This last chapter allowed me to  understand once and for all the merging of the old South and new South, and how it took a toll on the Compson family. Mostly all the members of the family other than Caddy were unable to change their opinions and lifestyle in order to become part of the new South. Each character being somehow stuck in the past showed how difficult it was for them to live in the present. 

The Compson's decline was inevitable, and the last chapter's clarity made me realize while I was reading and during the seminar that the Compson's were never going to move forward. I believe now at the end of the book that no matter if certain events didn't transpire, the Compson's would still end up where they are at the ending scene. Stuck in the past, unwilling and unbothered to move forward.