General Compson

Submitted by sfr on Sat, 2015-06-13 10:46
Text: 
Intruder in the Dust
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: 
Minor
Vitality: 
Dead
Family: 
Compson
Family (new): 
CompsonsInID
First Mentioned: 
Stevens-Mallison Home in Intruder in the Dust (Location)
Other Texts: 
"A Bear Hunt"
"A Justice"
"My Grandmother Millard and General Bedford Forrest and the Battle of Harrykin Creek"
Absalom, Absalom!
Go Down, Moses
Requiem for a Nun
The Reivers
The Sound and the Fury
The Town
The Unvanquished
Biography: 

The Compsons are one of the central families in the Yoknapatawpha fictions, and General Compson is the Compson who appears or is mentioned most frequently in them. In this novel, however, he is mentioned merely as one of the great men Chick's grandfather told him about: "the hunters" who in "the old days" pursued "deer and bear and wild turkey . . . within twelve miles of Jefferson" (90). Chick thinks of them just as he is about to set out on his own adventure beyond the Nine-Mile Branch.

Individual or Group: 
Individual
Character changes class in this text: 

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