Dilsey possesses all those qualities that are absent from the Compsons. She is the only one left who can understand Benjy's needs. When she sends Luster out with Benjy in the surrey, she wants Luster to go the exact same way that T. P. always went. Luster cannot understand Benjy's needs, but Dilsey knows that Benjy's mind is simple and needs things in their ordered place. Therefore, when Luster turns the wrong way at the square, Benjy senses that things are not in their ordered place and begins to howl. As soon as the horse is turned around, however, everything becomes ordered for Benjy and he becomes quiet.
The novel ends with Benjy commenting on the lack of order in the world. The only thing he can do is to howl when that order is violated.
By the end of this section, we have seen a depiction of the modern world as a place where the old values of the past are meaningless and the values of the present are destructive. In presenting the degeneration and collapse of a once-noble family, Faulkner has penetrated deeply into the psychological and moral deviations that have contributed to its decay. In summary, Faulkner sees this once-noble family as now consisting of a whining, neurotic mother; a drunken, cynical father; a son who commits suicide; a daughter who commits adultery; a son who becomes an amoral materialist; and finally, a son who is a bellowing, thirty-three-year-old castrated boy-man. Furthermore, no member of the family is able to establish a meaningful relationship. The closest tie is that formed by Benjy and his sister, but Benjy is incapable of understanding the relationship except as it gives him pleasure.
