Mother of Quentin MacLachan Compson
Character Key Number:
60
Display Name:
Mother of Quentin MacLachan Compson
Sort Name:
Compson, Mother of Quentin MacLachan
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?:
No
Biography:
In the "Appendix" to The Sound and the Fury that Faulkner published in 1946, the mother of Quentin MacLachan Compson I apparently dies early in his life. He is an "orphan" who is raised by her family in "the Perth highlands" (326).