General Compson

There are four "Jason Compsons" in the Yoknapatawpha fictions. There are two in this novel, though only one, "the first Jason," is given a first name (187). Faulkner presumably expects readers to know from that phrase that this second Compson, the son of the "first Jason," is also named Jason. The story only refers to him by his military title. After serving as a General in the Confederacy, this man becomes a partner with Sartoris and Redmond in the building of the railroad "north into Tennessee" (187). When the partners quarrel, his share is bought out by the other two men. General Compson appears frequently in the Yoknapatawpha fictions, but in other texts he is "the first Jason"'s grandson, and no other text associates him with Sartoris' railroad.