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Quotation from The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
“post and tree, window and doorway, and signboard, each in its ordered place”
The Sound and the Fury, April Eighth, 1928 (final sentence) (PG #75170)
After Jason turns the surrey the right way around the square, Benjy falls silent; the novel ends on a restored order that is both a comfort and a confinement.
Citation: "post and tree, window and doorway, and signboard, each in its ordered place" — William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury, April Eighth, 1928 (final sentence) (PG #75170). (id faulkner-the-sound-and-the-fury-q11)
