Chapter 5 reflection-Alissa Davis
The recurring themes regarding the senses recur as Faulkner describes the sounds and smells of black women that Christmas cannot see, but notices that they have a distinct smell. Christmas has a hatred toward women apparent in his annoyance with the buttons for unknown reasons, but this adds to his mysterious nature as he is surrounded by the images of darkness. Christmas feels isolated and alone in his search to find his inner self since he does not seem to fit in in black or white towns after he is rejected by both. This chapter has a foreboding sense of something that is going to happen to Christmas, revealed later in the novel. The mentioning of the buried whiskey and the verb "exhume" associated with it foreshadows some future events. This chapter takes place right before Christmas and Brown murder Joanna Burden with Christmas' razor and burn her house down. Faulkner does not reveal why Christmas has this hateful nature about him, or what will become of it in the future, adding to the unfinished storyline.
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