Jason Compson

Jason Compson is the son of Jason Compson III and Caroline Compson, formerly Caroline Bascomb. He is a brother to Quentin Compson, Benjy Compson, and Caddy Compson, and he narrates the third section of The Sound and the Fury. In the Compson Appendix Faulkner writes that Jason is the “first sane Compson since before Culloden and (a childless bachelor) hence the last” (342). After his father and his brother Quentin die, Jason becomes the family's head.

Reading Jason's Section
Compsons

The Sound and the Fury The Town The Mansion “A Justice” “That Evening Sun”

Hearson, Marc. “Jason Compson and the Mother Complex.” Mississippi Quarterly 53.4 (Fall 2000): 533-550.

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