General Compson

Submitted by dorette.sobolew... on Wed, 2017-06-21 23:12
Text: 
"My Grandmother Millard and General Bedford Forrest and the Battle of Harrykin Creek"
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: 
Peripheral
Vitality: 
Alive
Family: 
Compson
Family (new): 
CompsonsInMGM
Occupation: 
Armed Forces
Specific Job: 
Confederate General
First Mentioned: 
Sartoris Plantation in "My Grandmother Millard and General Bedford Forrest and the Battle of Harrykin Creek" (Location)
Home: 
Compson Place in "My Grandmother Millard and General Bedford Forrest and the Battle of Harrykin Creek" (Location)
Other Texts: 
"A Bear Hunt"
"A Justice"
"Appendix: Compson"
Absalom, Absalom!
Go Down, Moses
Intruder in the Dust
Requiem for a Nun
The Reivers
The Sound and the Fury
The Town
The Unvanquished
Biography: 

General Compson's first name is not given in this story, but the "Appendix" to The Sound and the Fury (1946) identifies him as "Jason Lycurgus Compson," the third Jason on the Compson family tree. The Compson family is one of the most important in the Yoknapatawpha fictions; in at least one of these, General Compson is identified as the first member of the family to arrive in Yoknapatawpha. In this story he is referred to as probably "the only Jefferson soldier" the first Yankees to arrive in Jefferson had ever heard of, presumably because of his rank (675).

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

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