y means but violence, and at the other end of the spectrum is Darl, articulate, insightful and expressive to the point of madness. Darl on philosophising about his mother reasons ' I haven't got ere one – Because if I had one, it is was. And if it is was, it can't be is. Can it? Then I am not – that's why I am not is', a classic example of how intellect can fuel insanity.
             There is but one chapter alone narrated by Jewel, as opposed to the one third of the novel narrated by Darl. The very absence of narration by Jewel appears testimony to his uneasiness and distrust of language. His unwillingness to articulate his feelings appears complicit in the pride and protectiveness he exhibits towards his mother's coffin, and his own innermost thoughts. Moreover Faulkner seems to suggest that Jewel, emotionally intense yet incredibly stunted, lacks the capacity to organize and analyse his feelings into a coherent and logical form, therefore he channels his emotions into physical forms, such as violence and abus
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