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cruelty and complaints. The fourth and final section was told from an omniscient viewpoint. It was sometimes known as “Dilsey’s Section” because of her prominence in this section, but she was not the sole focus in this section—a long sequence follows Jason as he pursues his niece, who had stolen about $7,000 from him, to “Mottson.” The focus here was entirely upon the present-day, Easter Sunday, and to that end, all traces of Caddy, including her daughter and even the very mention of her name, had been removed.The two main narratives presented in this section were fairly straightforward: Jason’s pursuit of his stolen money and his inevitable come-uppance when he insulted the wrong man in Mottson; and Dilsey’s attendance at an Easter church service, at which a preacher from St. Louis, Reverend Shegog, delivered a sermon which stirs in Dilsey an epiphany of doom for the Compson family. As she said, following the service, “I’ve seed de first en de last ... I seed de beginnin, en now I sees de endin.”(Faulkner 254) Ⅲ. The Causes of Caddy’s Tragedy All the readers of The Sound and the Fury know that Caddy was a tragic character in this novel. Though there was not a separate chapter of Caddy, she was the central character in this novel; and the cause of the tragedy of Caddy mainly came from two aspects. A. The Pressure from the Family This story was about the Compson family, which was a prominent one in Jefferson, Mississippi of the South America. Caddy was the only daughter of this family. The first section narrated by Caddy’s youngest brother Benjy, an idiot, who depended too much on her; he thought repeatedly that Caddy smells like trees. Most of his memory was centered about her. For example, at the beginning of this section, Luster leaded Benjy to a nearby course, hoping to earn back his lost quarter by fetching lost golf balls from the rough. The golf course lay on a stretch of what used to be the Compson pasture, which had been sold to developers by Mr.Compson to pay for his son Quentin’s education at Harvard. When Benjy heared one of the golfers calling out to his caddie, he moaned because the sound of the word “caddie” reminded him of his sister. In his memory, Benjy and T.P., one of the Compsons’ black servants, had gotten their hands on some champagne from the wedding, though T.P. thought the beverage was merely “sassprilluh.” The two boys were drinking and keeping falling down when they watched some cows cross the yard. T.P. and Quentin got into a fight because T.P. had been teasing Quentin about Caddy. The fighting and the alcohol threw Benjy’s world into chaos, and he began to cry. Versh carried Benjy up the hill to the wedding party. Moreover, in the present, Luster was still standing with Benjy as he played in the stream. Luster told Benjy not to approach the nearby swing because Miss Quentin was there with her boyfriend, the man with the red tie. This made Benjy recall a time years ago when he saw Caddy and Charlie, her first suitor, kissing on the swing. In his memory, Benjy began to cry very loudly when Caddy’s suitor approached. Charlie growed angry at Benjy’s intrusion, which upseted Benjy even more. Caddy took Benjy back to the house and cried, because she knew Benjy was upset with her for kissing Charlie. Caddy apologized to Benjy and washed her mouth out with soap. The gate and schoolgirls reminded Benjy of a day in 1910, when he ran out of the house to look at some girls who were walking through the same gate. In