Yale professor Wai Chee Dimock continues her reading of Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury, part of her course Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner. She juxtaposes Quentin's stream-of-consciousness narration with Benjy's, arguing that Faulkner builds the two sections around what she calls kinship and variation. The lecture traces both brothers' relationships to the novel's black characters, including Luster and the Deacon, before turning to how each brother experiences Caddy's loss of sexual innocence. Dimock examines the shifting meaning of the word sister across the novel and closes by reading Quentin's suicide as a response to the second-hand tragedy of Caddy's pregnancy, linking it to the image of Saint Francis and little sister death. Recorded at Yale in Fall 2011, the talk moves chapter by chapter through close textual analysis rather than plot summary, assuming familiarity with the novel's structure.