Overall Observations

Time
Time changes to relate the story and emphasize order. Quentin tells us the story of the past, as does Benjy, though Benjy similarly tells us of the present and varying times of the past.

Quentin obsesses about time, and breaks several watches in  a search for actuality and meaning.

Clocks are shown to be solemn and sad in the final chapter.

Form 

Faulkner notates questions without question marks.  For example Caddy asks, ""What is it."... " What are you trying to tell Caddy.""  He also refrains from normal capitalization in the end of his second chapter to show Quentin's confusion and disorder.

Benjy's thoughts are structured on what is related.  This is seen as thoughts of fire, for example are connected regardless of time.  Lines such as "she smelled like trees" are used as transitions.

By switching narrators Faulkner creates development.

Point of View

By making Benjy the opening narrator, Faulkner makes points on time, bias, and other essential elements (see the post on Benjy's section), but it also places major restrictions on him as a writer that have to be considered.

A final third person narrator shows a clearer view, but also one slightly separate form what is unfolding.

Character 

Caddy:
- Benjy interestingly observes that Caddy appears as a "light in darkness".  This line appears more poetic than the rest of his section
- "Caddie" is mistaking for "Caddy". Both are guides.
- Wants to "carry" Benjy ("I can carry him"), even when she is small and relatively weaker.

Benjy:
- Sees people as going into separate places, when they are visible from a mirror.  This is shown as he says they were "fighting in the mirror".
- People appear to think that Benjy cannot understand anything simply because he cannot speak (with the exception some, prominently Caddy).  This is shown because Luster says he is "deaf and dumb".
- He follows after the girls who walk by the fence, even though he knows they are not Caddy.
- Has a "graveyard" with flowers that he tends for.  This raises the question of who died.
- Likes fire

Quentin: (The Older)
- Clearly feels disgrace of the family, and suffers with upholding what he sees as necessary.
- Feels deep a deep love and connection to Caddy, and a lesser one to the South.

Dilsey:
- Makes a cake for Benjy out of her own resources, and is criticized for it.
- Gives up everything to raise all of the children, and only challenges authority to protect them, as she does when Jason threatens Quentin
- Projected as very solemn in the final chapter

Jason: (Caddy and Benjys' Brother)
- Projected early on to be a rich man.
- There could not be a crueler character

Quentin: (Caddy's Kid)
- Represents a freedom and the future much like her mother.
- Doesn't understand Jason's cruelty, and attributes it to making her who she is.