【正文】 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 considered honorable and gentlemanly. Quentin’s struggle to reconcile Caddy’s actions with his own traditional Southern value system reflects Faulkner’s broader concern with the clash between the old South and the modern world. Like a medieval code of chivalry, the old South’s ideals are based on a society that has largely disappeared. Just Quentin’s traditional, idealized Southern code of honor and conduct fettered Caddy. And at that time, women’s right was improving, but her thought contradicted her family， so Caddy became a promiscuous, degenerate women. And because of Quentin’s suicide, Caddy became more and more promiscuous. Another cause came from her mother and another brother Jason. Herbert Head had offered Jason a job at his bank before Caddy married him, but rescinded that offer when he divorced Caddy. Because he knew that Caddy’s unborn child was not his. This retraction left Jason no choice but to work at the local farmsupply store. However, after Caddy divorced, her mother did not allow Caddy e back home, at last, they took in Caddy’s daughter Miss Quentin, but Caddy could not meet her. During Quentin’s growing time, Jason took away the money, which Caddy gave to Quentin, as his own. In order to meet her daughter, Caddy would like to be controlled by Jason。她們不能與男性享有平等的權(quán)利，也得不到社會(huì)的尊重。她所扮演的是一個(gè)悲劇角色 . 在小說(shuō)中，?？思{運(yùn)用了多角度的敘述法來(lái)表現(xiàn)凱蒂的悲劇。 tragedy。所有的這些原因使凱蒂?gòu)囊粋€(gè)純潔的女孩變成了一個(gè)輕佻浪蕩的女人。 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 mitted 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。 and especially feminine purity, modesty, and virginity. Men like Quentin, who attempted to cling to these increasingly outdated Southern ideals, sensed that their grasp was slipping and their sense of order was disappearing. Their reliance on a set of outdated myths and ideals left them unequipped to deal with the realities of the modern world. Several characters in The Sound and the Fury embodied this changing of the guard from old ideals to modern realities. Damuddy, the lone representative of the old South left in the Compson family, died before any of the other action in the novel took place. Miss Quentin, the lone member of the Compsons’ new generation, was not only a bastard child, but had continued in Caddy’s promiscuous ways without displaying any of the guilt that Caddy felt about something did wrong. But 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, at last, he preferred the suicide. No doubt his behavior gave Caddy psychological pressure and made her feel ashamed, so that her life style was affected afterwards. 攀枝花學(xué)院本科畢業(yè)論文 Body 10 Ⅳ . Women’s Social Status Reflected from Caddy’s Tragedy From Caddy’s tragedy, we can see that the social status of women was very low in the early of the 20th century. A. Women Having Fewer Rights at That Time Throughout most of history women generally have had fewer legal rights and career opportunities than men. Wifehood and motherhood were regarded as women’s most significant professions. In the 20th century, however, women in most nations won the right to vote and increased their educational and job opportunities. Perhaps most important, they fought for and to a large degree acplished a reevaluation of traditional views of their role in society. But in the South America, there is a traditional, idealized Southern code of honor and conduct. This code is a legacy of the