A character in this novel is given a jimsonweed flower to play with as a distraction after he is told to stop watching men hitting golf balls. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this novel set in June 1910 and April 1928. A man in this novel who has his name changed from Maury frequently thinks that his sister “smelled like trees.”
ANSWER: The Sound and the Fury (by William Faulkner)
[10e] The Sound and the Fury ends with Jason Compson breaking one of these flowers held by his brother Benjy. The narrator sees a host of these “golden” flowers in William Wordsworth’s poem “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud.”
ANSWER: daffodils [or narcissus]
[10h] In part two of the novel, Quentin Compson gets the aroma of this flower “all mixed up” in his memories of his sister Caddy. A real-life plaque by the Charles River states that Quentin drowned “in the odour of” this plant.
ANSWER: honeysuckle
<HG, American Literature>