Quentin Compson
Quentin is a son of Jason Compson III and Caroline Compson, formerly Caroline Bascomb. He is a brother to Benjy Compson, Caddy Compson, and Jason Compson. He narrates the second section of The Sound and the Fury and is the narrator of Absalom, Absalom!. He committed suicide in Cambridge, Massachusetts on June 2, 1910.
See also:
Compsons
Reading Quentin's Section in The Sound and the Fury
Quentin and Incest
Quentin and Homosexuality
Works
The Sound and the Fury
Absalom, Absalom!
“A Justice”
“That Evening Sun”
Selected Bibliography
Bleikasten, André. The Ink of Melancholy: Faulkner's Novels from The Sound and the Fury to Light in August. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1990.
Polk, Noel. Children of the Dark House: Text and Context in Faulkner. Jackson, MS: UP of Mississippi, 1996.
”'Am I Going to Have to Hear It All Again?': Quentin Compson's Role as Narratee in The Sound and the Fury and Absalom, Absalom!” Southern Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of the South 14:1 (Spring-Summer 2007): 47-61.
