How we cite our quotes: Citations follow this format: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #4
you are confusing sin and morality women dont do that your mother is thinking of morality whether it be sin or not has not occurred to her […] (2.147)
Mr. Compson’s insistence than men and women operate with different codes of conduct could be part of the reason that Quentin spends so much time obsessing about how Caddy makes the choices that she does.
Quote #5
If it could just be a hell beyond that: the clean flame the two of us more than dead. Then you will have only me then only me then the two of us amid the pointing and the horror beyond the clean flame (2.252)
For Quentin, the idea of hell becomes a sort of symbolic purification: if he can confess to incest, he’ll have cleared Caddy’s name for all eternity. Hell becomes a "clean flame" for the both of them.
Quote #6
[…] and he i think you are too serious to give me any cause for alarm you wouldnt have felt driven to the expedient of telling me you had committed incest otherwise […] (2.1008)
Unfortunately, no one takes Quentin’s determination to protect Caddy seriously – least of all his father. Or, for that matter, Caddy. Quentin’s protection is mostly theoretical (or imaginary).