Summary

Section 2, June 2, 1910 (Part I)

Quentin listens to his Grandfather's watch that his father gave him before sending him off to Harvard. He lays in his room listening to it tick. He hears his roomate get up to go to class. Quentin gets up and turns the watch over and goes back to bed.

Quentin thinks of his sister and how he told his father he committed incest to save his sister's reputation. He tries to convince his father to send his brother, Jason, to Harvard instead. His roommate comes to his door asking him if he is cutting classes that morning. Quentin says he did not know it was so late. He tells Shreve to go without him and he would be along later.

He watches the students out the window running to class. It makes him think how his classmates...