Unnamed Sexual Partners of Miss Quentin

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Unnamed Sexual Partners of Miss Quentin
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Unnamed Sexual Partners of Miss Quentin
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In The Sound and the Fury Miss Quentin, like her mother Caddy, is sexually active as a teenager (and also seems to be pregnant, as Caddy was with her, out of wedlock). Jason is sure that his niece makes herself available not only to all the "slick-headed jellybeans" (184) and "dam squirts" (188) in Jefferson but to "every dam drummer and cheap show [man] that comes to town" (239). Jason's opinions about women reveal at least as much about him as about them, but Luster does confirm that Caddy's daughter is very promiscuous when he tells the man with the red tie that he "dont keep no track" of all the men who come "every night she can climb down that tree" (50).