He resents Quentin as the symbol of the job he was deprived of when Caddy divorced Herbert Head. He cashes this check, then makes out a fake check for his mother to burn. He loses $200 in the stock market, and also receives a $200 check from Caddy for Quentin's upkeep. At the same time he is dealing with the finances of his life. Furious, he chases the two of them out of town but loses them when they let the air out of his tires. He takes her to school but then sees her skipping later with one of the musicians who is in town for the circus.
Throughout the day he is haunted by memories of Caddy, especially of her affair with Dalton Ames, her pregnancy, and her marriage to Herbert Head.Īpril Sixth, 1928: this section follows Jason through his day as he deals with Quentin, Caddy's illegitimate daughter, who skips school and sleeps around. He returns to Cambridge to clean his clothes, then heads back out to the same town to drown himself in the river. He ends up getting into a fight with one of them when he confuses his rantings on women with those of Dalton Ames, the boy who got his sister pregnant. He also runs into his friends, who are in town for a picnic. He arrives in a little riverside town and meets up with a small immigrant girl, who follows him around until her brother finds them and accuses him of kidnapping her. He puts on clean clothes and packs all his belongings, then buys two flat irons to weight himself down with and heads out of town (he is attending Harvard at the time). June Second, 1910: this section follows the events of the last day of Quentin's life, as he makes meticulous preparations for his suicide. He has a specific order to the day's events, and when Luster interrupts this order, he howls. He can smell the change in Caddy when she is young and pure she smells like trees to him, and when she begins to have sex she no longer smells like trees. He also remembers her precocious sexuality, which led to her pregnancy and marriage, taking her out of his life.
He remembers, for example, the night his grandmother (Damuddy) died, when Caddy climbed a tree to look in the parlor windows, showing her siblings her muddy drawers. At the same time he relives memories of his youth, most of which have to do with Caddy. April Seventh, 1928: Benjy accompanies Luster as he searches for a quarter to go to the circus that night.
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