Sewanee University, Tennessee in The Sound and the Fury (Location)

In one of the many passages where Jason lists his grievances to himself, he compares Harvard, where "they teach you how to go for a swim without knowing how to swim," to "Sewanee," where "they dont even teach you what water is" (196). Affiliated with the Episcopal Church, Sewanee: The University of the South is located in Sewanee, Tennessee - but it's not clear why Jason thinks of it in this way, or at all. He resents the money his parents spent to send Quentin to Harvard, but there's no evidence anyone in the family went to Sewanee. Jason's dead father and his uncle Maury are both confirmed drinkers; perhaps one of them went to Sewanee, and Jason is bitterly thinking should have learned there to drink water instead - but that's an interpretive speculation. (In Flags in the Dust both Horace Benbow and his father Will went to Sewanee.)