Dec 23, 2009

The Sound and the Fury | Jason Compson IV

The middle son of the Compson family. After his brother Quentin's suicide and the death of his father, Jason is the head of the family. Throughout the novel Jason is shown as a cold-blooded person. Mrs. Compson, however, sees him as the only one of her children with any common sense, in his "Appendix: Compson 1699-1945," Faulkner describes him as "the first sane Compson since before Culloden and (a childless bachelor) hence the last." Jason does seem attached to the real world more than his other siblings. He sees the necessity of succeeding in society, which he translates as the need to...