So I was reading one of the sections from Darl's perspective when he talks about Jewel being out late and sleeping during the day because he's having sex with someone. Then at the end of that section I see Darl say he realized what happened with Dewey Dell. Is this another example of Faulknerian incest? Are they having sex with each other because I'm pretty sure they are.
In this case, I have some ideas about what the incest represents. In the Sound and the Fury, the Caddie/Quentin vaguely incestuous relationship was representative of the decline of the Southern Aristocracy. Addie's children are very obviously not the Southern Aristocracy; instead, perhaps the Jewel-y Dell incest is the opposite. It could represent the insularity of rural communities, especially poor rural communities. They as a group stay rooted in the past and do not work towards growth or mixing with those they consider to be other "other".
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