General Compson

Submitted by johnmcorrigan@g... on Sun, 2015-04-12 07:15
Text: 
"The Bear"
Character Key: 
Jason Lycurgus Compson II
Display Name: 
General Compson
Sort Name: 
Compson, General
AKA: 
Jason Lycurgus Compson II
Race: 
White
Gender: 
Male
Class: 
Upper Class
Rank: 
Secondary
Vitality: 
Alive
Family: 
Compson
Family (new): 
CompsonsInBAR
Occupation: 
Management
First Mentioned: 
Unnamed Family's Plantation in "The Bear" (Location)
Other Texts: 
"A Justice"
"My Grandmother Millard and General Bedford Forrest and the Battle of Harrykin Creek"
Absalom, Absalom!
Go Down, Moses
Intruder in the Dust
Requiem for a Nun
The Mansion
The Reivers
The Sound and the Fury
The Town
The Unvanquished
Biography: 

The General Compson who appears in this story is "Jason Lycurgus Compson," and appears in a dozen other Yoknapatawpha fictions. In this shortened magazine version of "The Bear," we are told that he was "old enough to be a brigade commander in 1865" (286) and he retains this characterizing epithet ("old General Compson," 280, 284, 286, 287, etc.) throughout. In the story, set at least seventeen years after the end of the Civil War, he is a close friend and hunting companion of Major de Spain.

Note: 
JBP: Changed First Mention from Fishing Camp to Unnamed Boy's Father's Plantation (first referred to in event 282.2). Also changed "Sort name" to Compson, General.
Individual or Group: 
Individual
Character changes class in this text: 

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