How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.[Part].Section.Paragraph)
Quote #4
[The dog] stopped just outside the front door, where he could see it now, and the uplifting of its head as the howl began; and then he saw her too. She was standing in the kitchen door, looking at him. He didn't move. He didn't breathe nor speak until he knew his voice would be all right, his face fixed too not to alarm her. "Mannie," he said. "Hit's awright. Ah aint afraid." Then he took a step toward her, slow not even raising his hand yet, and stopped. Then he took another step. But this time as soon as he moved she began to fade. He stopped at once, not breathing again, motionless, willing his eyes to see that she had stopped too. But she had not stopped. She was fading, going. (3.1.10)
The words the narrator uses to describe Rider's experience of seeing Mannie's ghost paint this as a real, and not imagined, experience. And the fact that the dog also sees Mannie corroborates it. So it seems that Faulkner wanted his readers to treat this scene as a real encounter with a ghost.
Quote #5
"Whut faith and trust?" [Rider] said. "Whut Mannie ever done ter Him? Whut he wanter come messin wid me and—?" (3.1.19)
Impress your friends by using the word "theodicy" in a sentence. As in, Rider and his uncle debate theodicy—if there's a faithful God, why did he take Mannie? Rider's uncle has no answer for this.
Quote #6
[…] the wilderness breathed again. It seemed to lean inward above them, above himself and Sam and Walter and Boon in their separate lurking-places, tremendous, attentive, impartial and omniscient, the buck moving in it somewhere, not running yet since he had not been pursued, not frightened yet never fearsome but just alert also as they were alert, perhaps already circling back, perhaps quite near, perhaps conscious also of the eye of the ancient immortal Umpire. (4.2.14)
Now, we've heard God being referred to as a "watchmaker" but "Umpire" is a new one. As Isaac knows, there are rules of the game in the wilderness, and if you break them, you're out.