General Compson
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Character Key:
Display Name:
General Compson
Sort Name:
Compson, General
AKA:
Jason Lycurgus Compson II
Race:
White
Gender:
Male
Class:
Upper Class
Rank:
Peripheral
Vitality:
Dead
Family:
Compson
Family (new):
Occupation:
Armed Forces
Specific Job:
Army General
First Mentioned:
Other Texts:
Biography:
The Jason Compson who figures most prominently in this novel notes that his family history contains "one governor and one brigadier general" (357). Although he is not named in this novel, this "general" is the Compson who appears most often in the Yoknapatawpha fictions. He is Jason's grandfather, also named Jason, and served as an officer in the Confederate Army during the Civil War.
Individual or Group:
Individual
Character changes class in this text:
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