Benjy Compson
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Character Key:
Display Name:
Benjy Compson
Sort Name:
Compson, Benjy
AKA:
Maury Compson
Benjamin Comspon
Race:
White
Gender:
Male
Class:
Upper Class
Rank:
Minor
Vitality:
Dead
Family:
Compson
Family (new):
First Mentioned:
Cause of Death:
Suicide
Other Texts:
Biography:
A major figure in Faulkner's Sound and the Fury (1929), Benjy Compson is born into one of Yoknapatawpha's most prominent old families. He has severe cognitive disabilities, which result in his being sent to the Mississippi State Insane Asylum in Faulkner's later "Appendix: Compson" (1946). But this novel brings him back to Jefferson, where he destroys both his decaying family mansion and himself in a fire.
Disability:
cognitively disabled
speech impaired
Individual or Group:
Individual
Character changes class in this text:
Date of Death:
Tuesday, January 1, 1935 to Tuesday, December 31, 1935
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