His past memories bother him again and again. There is a frequent appearance of watches and clocks. The ticking of Quentin's clock haunts him, so he slams the clock against the dresser and breaks it. Quentin, at Harvard, constantly notices the bells in the clock tower. Quentin is unable to move beyond his memories of the past. Quentin is the hope of the family. Quentin is like Shakespeare's Hamlet, where he overthinks a subject and is trapped in his thoughts of the past. Quentin envies Dalton Ames every time he sees or hears about him. He hates that Caddy had been with Dalton Ames. In The Sound and the Fury, Caddy disliked her relationships with men and told Quentin, "When they touched me, I died." Caddy hated it, but found it as a way to escape the Compson world. Quentin decided to tell his father that he committed incest, but he did nothing of the sort. He just wants to protect Caddy. Quentin wants Caddy to be disgraced because of him, not because of the men she had sex with. Quentin saw both himself and Caddy in hell with no one else in sight. Quentin saw it because he was planning to commit suicide. Quentin just wanted Caddy to be protected and to stay away from others