Great-grandfather

Character Key: 
Display Name: 
Great-grandfather
Sort Name: 
Compson, Great-grandfather
AKA: 
Quentin Compson II
Race: 
White
Gender: 
Male
Class: 
Upper Class
Rank: 
Peripheral
Vitality: 
Dead
Family: 
Compson
Family (new): 
Biography: 

Sam Fathers relates that he and his "mammy" (mother) were purchased as slaves by Quentin's "great-grandpappy" (344). The story says nothing more about this Compson, not even his name. But in the "Appendix" to The Sound and the Fury that Faulkner wrote in 1945, Quentin's great-grandfather Compson is listed as Quentin MacLachan Compson II.

Property Status: 
owns slaves
Individual or Group: 
Individual
Character changes class in this text: 

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