General Compson

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Display Name: 
General Compson
Sort Name: 
Compson, General
AKA: 
Jason Lycurgus Compson II
Race: 
White
Gender: 
Male
Class: 
Upper Class
Rank: 
Minor
Vitality: 
Dead
Family: 
Compson
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Occupation: 
Armed Forces
Biography: 

General Compson was a Confederate brigadier and for two days governor of Mississippi (72-73). These positions explain the only detail about him the novel provides: the many floral arrangements at his funeral. As the grandfather of Quentin Compson, he plays a crucial role in Absalom, Absalom!, and he is the character who appears most frequently in the collected Yoknapatawpha fictions.

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This is Jason Lycurgus Compson, according to the Appendix Compson for The Sound and the Fury.
Individual or Group: 
Individual
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