world it is more likely to be emotional violence such as is inflicted by the Compson's on one another.
The importance of the past in this story is indicated in the opening paragraph as the narrator, showing that this is a memory. Just as the action in the story has been affected by events long before it, so the narrator shows that he has been affected by this memory from the past. "Monday is no different from any other weekday in Jefferson now" (2032), he says, thus setting the story in Jefferson and drawing attention to the fact that changes have been made, changes which are detailed in the next several sentences and which all relate to modernization by the inclusion of the motor car and services offered by local businesses. In the past referred to, though, such things as laundry were still labor-intensive. What Quentin remembers of the Mondays of 15 years before is the many black maids who came to town to take care of whi
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