Mississippi State Insane Asylum (Jackson) in The Sound and the Fury (Location)

The Mississippi State Insane Asylum was located in Jackson until 1935. Jason Compson several times comments that his brother Benjy should be sent there, and even wonders - facetiously, he thinks - if the whole family should be "down there at Jackson chasing butterflies" (230). (In the "Appendix" Faulkner wrote about fifteen years after the novel, it turns out that Jason does have Benjy committed there, but a dozen years later, in The Mansion, Faulkner decided to have Benjy released to return home, though it is hardly a happy ending to his story.)