April 8, 1928
The final section, the shortest of the four, is narrated by Faulkner himself. The principal figure in this section is Dilsey, the black cook. Amid all the sound and fury of the Compsons, Dilsey is able to bring peace and order. But Faulkner does not confine himself to her. Instead, he steps back from the closeness of the earlier sections and presents a somewhat panoramic view of the entire Compson world and of Dilsey's world. This section takes place on Easter Sunday.
When Dilsey arrives at work on Sunday morning, she immediately begins to set the house in order. She notices the clock, which strikes five times, and she knows that it's eight o'clock. Dilsey will ultimately emerge as a person who can bring order out of the chaos created by the Compsons.
When Jason discovers the theft of the money, he almost loses control of himself. It is not so much that he has lost the money — which is indeed very important to him — but rather that he has been made a fool of by Miss Quentin. He feels that this is another trick played on him, similar to the trick Caddy played on him by being pregnant when she married, or the trick that his brother Quentin played on him when Quentin committed suicide. Also, the theft is significant because Caddy will no longer be sending any more checks, and Jason will have to confess to his mother — or else actually put his own check into her bank account. The theft is a kind of poetic justice because the money was actually sent by Caddy for Miss Quentin, and Jason stole it from her. However, it wasn't three thousand dollars, as Jason reported to the sheriff; it was more like seven or eight thousand dollars. Further poetic justice prevails when Jason, who has always bullied every person he met, tries to bully the little man with the traveling show, and the man takes a hatchet to Jason.
