June Second, 1910: this section follows the events of the last day of Quentin's life, as he makes meticulous preparations for his suicide. He has a specific order to the day's events, and when Luster interrupts this order, he howls. He can smell the change in Caddy when she is young and pure she smells like trees to him, and when she begins to have sex she no longer smells like trees. He also remembers her precocious sexuality, which led to her pregnancy and marriage, taking her out of his life. He remembers, for example, the night his grandmother (Damuddy) died, when Caddy climbed a tree to look in the parlor windows, showing her siblings her muddy drawers. At the same time he relives memories of his youth, most of which have to do with Caddy. April Seventh, 1928: Benjy accompanies Luster as he searches for a quarter to go to the circus that night.
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