Quentin vs. Benjy: relationships with time

Quentin’s relationship to time is very contradicting to Benjy’s view of time, however they both have unnatural relationships with time that most people do not have. Quentin is obsessed with time and its progression, this becomes evident through Quentin’s constant need to look at his watch, to keep track of time, to count the seconds of his life that passed him by. In a way this fear of time and the change that comes with time keeps Quentin from fully living his life, and keeps him in fear. Furthermore everything is very chronological to Quentin while Benjy seems to just connect moments of his life together, time is irrelevant but his emotions are what drive him. The tension between Quentin and time is his unhealthy relationship with progression. Quentin hates change and progression because as time goes on his life becomes more out of control. Caddy, his beloved sister travels down the wrong path, his family’s name looses its good affiliations, and his relationships with those around him become more and more damaged. Quentin is obsessed with order and tradition and as his life goes on he looses control over these things which are clearly not important to anyone else in the Compson family. His disapproval of change is also demonstrated in the fact that Quentin often has many ideas but in unable to ever put them into action and cause any real impact. His ideas are half thought out and perhaps he does not complete his ideas because the idea that he himself could cause change also scares him. All of this tension with time finally leads Quentin to suicide by drowning himself. He does this because he can not deal with Caddy’s promiscuity which he finds appalling, and the decline of the Compson family. Quentin looks up to his dad through out the entire book until learning that his role model dad is a sham and does not believe in any of the things he taught Quentin to believe in. Because Quentin feels so helpless, and like everyone in his life has hurt and done him wrong he feels that life is no longer worth fixing or living. From Benjy and Quentin we are given a lot of insight to the true Compton family. We learn that even though Caddy is making wrong decisions her brothers love her more then anyone eles, leading me to believe she is a very compassionate and loving person. We learn of how awful the Compson parents are, and of how the dad’s morals have slipped with his age. Prior to this generation the Compson family had been well respected, wealthy, and liked in the South, and both Quentin and Benjy are very aware of the decline which their family is experiencing. Furthermore, Quentin and Benjy’s narratives show how much of a mother figure Disley has been to their family.
After reading Time and Timepieces: A Note on Quentin's Section I thought that perhaphs Quentin actually wished to escape his obsession of time. This is evident through him destroying the watch, but when I read it I thought it was just him reacting out of desperation to his life and wanting to stop time, not escape his obsession from it. Also i really liked this sentence; "Quentin's time is not his: it is an external force which compresses and compels him". I think that his idea is what I was trying to write about before, but these words make my thoughts anlot clearer in my own head. I also thought it was intresting when this essay called time Quentin's enemy. I wonder if Quentin himself thought this, or this is just what someone looking in on Quentin's life would say?