This character's father tells him that "Christ was not crucified: he was worn away by a minute clicking of little wheels.
This character's father tells him that "Christ was not crucified: he was worn away by a minute clicking of little wheels." This character narrates a story in which his father is indifferent to Nancy's crippling fear of her husband, Jesus. This narrator of "That Evening Sun" appears in a novel in which he is assaulted by Julio for befriending a young Italian girl he calls "sister." He punches Gerald Bland after remembering the time he threatened to kill Dalton Ames for seducing his sister, whose daughter is named for him. Along with his roommate Shreve, he reconstructs the history of the Sutpen family, before drowning in the Charles River in 1910. For 10 points, name this character who narrates Absalom, Absalom! and the second section of The Sound and the Fury, the oldest brother of Jason, Benjy, and Caddy Compson.
This character's father tells him that "Christ was not crucified: he was worn away by a minute clicking of little wheels.
Quentin Compson [prompt on Compson]