Father of Quentin MacLachan Compson
Character Key Number:
59
Display Name:
Father of Quentin MacLachan Compson
Sort Name:
Compson, Father of Quentin MacLachan
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?:
No
Biography:
In the "Appendix" to The Sound and the Fury that Faulkner published in 1946, the family line begins with this man: a printer in Glasgow, Scotland, who is the father of Quentin MacLachan Compson. Apparently he died when his son was still a child (326).