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his memory, Benjy managed to open the gate and run through it, he wanted to tell the girls how much he missed Caddy, he catched up with one of them. The girl screamed in terror. The scene ended with an unspecified assailant—presumably the father of one of the girls—attacked Benjy. That night, Mr. Compson wanted to know how Benjy got past the gate. He and Jason mulled over the idea of having Benjy castrated as a precaution. All of these things show how pitiful Benji was! Meanwhile, this was also the tragedy of Caddy, because from the childhood to the age hood, there was only Caddy caring for Benjy. When she divorced, their mother and Jason did not allow her to go home and meet her daughter, Quentin. But she also cared for Benjy very much; Caddy afraided that after their father’s death Benjy would be put in the mental hospital in Jackson by Jason. Caddy’s eldest brother Quentin Compson, who had a special feeling with her, he connected the honor of the family with his life. Before his suicide, He had a memory of his sister, Caddy’s wedding announcement: “Mr. and Mrs. Jason Richmond Compson announce the marriage of....” (Faulkner 112) Caddy got married in April, just two months ago. He went through a series of painful memories, thinking of her promiscuity and her marriage to Herbert Head. He remembered his mother’s letters about Caddy and Herbert, and Herbert’s promise to give Jason a job in his bank. He thought vaguely about his mother’s pride and emptiness, musing that Caddy never had a real mother and that he himself could never turn to his mother in times of need. And he remembered the time he told his father he had committed incest with Caddy, though he never actually had sexual relations with her, and that his father did not believe him. Besides, his father told him that the only reason he was upset at Caddy’s pregnancy was because he himself was still a virgin. Mr. Compson was relatively unconcerned with Caddy’s pregnancy because he said that virginity was just a meaningless concept invented by men. From these memories, we can see clearly that the main thrust of Quentin’s section was his struggle against Caddy’s promiscuity. Quentin was horrified by Caddy’s conduct, and he was obsessed by the stain, which had left on the family’s honor. Quentin, like Benjy, had a strong sense of order and chaos. Benjy’s order was based on patterns of experience in his mind; however, Quentin’s order was based on a traditional, idealized Southern code of honor and conduct. This code was a legacy of the old South, a highly paternalistic society in which men were expected to act like gentlemen and women like ladies. Quentin believed very strongly in the ideals espoused under this traditional code: family honor; gentlemanly virtue, strength, and decency; and especially feminine purity, modesty, and virginity. Caddy’s promiscuity deeply hurted Quentin because he viewed it as dirty and shameful, a blatant violation of the ideal of femininity found in his Southern code. Quentin took his code very seriously, as it forms the basis of order in his world. When Caddy’s promiscuity broke the code, Quentin attempted to maintain his sense of order by responding in a manner he considered honorable. Thinking that suicide was the only way to salvage the family name, Quentin told Caddy that he would kill himself if she did the same. When she was uninterested, Quentin’s next idea was to falsely accept the responsibility for fathering Caddy’s child—a lie, but one he con