How we cite our quotes: Citations follow this format: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #4
Only our country was not like this country. There was something about just walking through it. A kind of still and violent fecundity that satisfied even bread-hunger like. Flowing around you, not brooding and nursing every niggard stone. (2.228)
To Quentin, the very land of the North seems like alien territory. The light, the heat, and the dust are all recurring themes in his interior monologue – they’re actually different in "this country."
Quote #5
Some days in late August at home are like this, the air thin and eager like this, with something in it sad and nostalgic and familiar. (2.341)
We’re not quite sure how air can contain so much emotion, but Quentin seems more than willing to invest lots of emotional capital in how different the land of the North is from that of the South.
Quote #6
The earth immediately about the door was bare. It had a patina, as though from the soles of bare feet in generations, like old silver or the walls of Mexican houses which have been plastered by hand. Beside the house, shading it in summer, stood three mulberry trees, the fledged leaves that would later be broad and placid as the palms of hands streaming flatly undulant upon the driving air. (4.3)
OK. This is a house. But note how different the narrator’s voice is when describing Dilsey’s house here: the diction is clean and simple, the syntax straightforward. It’s pretty different from descriptions of the Compson house, right?