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	WFotW ~ Faulkner Glossary: "C"
		A confirmed sadist, Jason Compson reveled in his cruelty to others, including his mother, their fl servant Dilsey and her grandson Luster, and his niece Quentin, who in 1928 stole $7,000 from him, about half of which legally belonged to her in the first place, as it was sent to her by her mother, Caddy.
		Compson, Quentin: (1891-June 2, 1910) Oldest son of Jason Richmond Lycurgus Compson III and Caroline Bascomb Compson, and brother to Caddy, Jason, and Benjy.
		Compson, Quentin MacLachan: (1699-1783) The son of a Glasgow, Scotland, printer, and the acknowledged patriarch of the Compson family.
	www.mcsr.olemiss.edu /~egjbp/faulkner/glossaryc.html (2833 words)

	The Sound and the Fury - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The first section of the novel is narrated by Benjamin Compson, the youngest of the Compson boys and a source of shame to the family because of his mental retardation; the only characters who seem to show any genuine caring for him are his sister Caddy, and Dilsey, a matriarchal servant.
		She, in contrast to the declining Compsons, draws a tremendous amount of strength from herself and her faith, and thus stands as a proud figure amidst a dying family.
		Quentin Compson (Female) Daughter of Caddy who goes to live with the Compsons when Jason is the head of the household.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Sound_and_the_Fury (2528 words)

	Quentin Compson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Quentin Compson is a fictional character created by William Faulkner.
		He is an intelligent, introspective son of the Compson family.
		He is featured in Faulkner classics such as The Sound and the Fury and Absalom, Absalom!
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Quentin_Compson (102 words)

	WFotW ~ The Sound and the Fury: COMMENTARY
		Another minor obsession Quentin has throughout his section is with shadows; the word “shadow” is repeated constantly throughout his section (thus recalling Shakespeare’s image of a “walking shadow” in the soliloquy alluded to by the novel’s title).
		Alone among the present-day Compsons, Quentin still feels pride in his family’s noble and glorious past, but he recognizes that today nothing remains of that past; it is mere shadow, and he is merely a “poor player” strutting and fretting, powerless to achieve anything of serious importance.
		Part of Quentin’s mental perturbation arises from his father’s deep and unswerving cynicism and nihilism; much of his section is a sort of inner dialogue with his father, in which Quentin hopes to prove his father wrong.
	www.mcsr.olemiss.edu /~egjbp/faulkner/n-sf.html (2422 words)

	The Sound and the Fury Study Guide / The Sound and the Fury Summary
		Quentin never finds her happy after being with all the men she is with, and thus asks her why she does it in the first place.
		Compson Curse 5: A pivotal moment for the pair of Caddy and Quentin, their exchange takes place after Caddy goes to meet Dalton Ames, the young man who impregnated her, but who was not her husband.
		Compson Curse 7: In a fight that Jason and his niece, Quentin, have before he drops her off at school, she yells at him that she does not really care what happens to her, because she is bad and belongs in hell anyway.
	www.bookrags.com /notes/saf/TOP1.htm (774 words)

	Quentin Compson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		, Quentin Compson is all too painfully aware of the complexities of the society into which he was born.
		In the passage, at Harvard and aided by his Canadian friend, Shreve, Quentin attempts to come to terms with the complexity of the South which spawned him.
		Quentin did not answer, staring at the window; then he could not tell if it was the actual window or the window's pale rectangle upon his eyelids, though after a moment it began to emerge.
	xroads.virginia.edu /~1930s/PRINT/ababgwtw/quentin.html (215 words)

	Quentin Compson (In-Depth Analysis) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Compson for guidance, Quentin feels even worse when he learns that his father does not care about the Southern code or the shame Caddy’s conduct has brought on the family.
		Quentin is full of vague ideas, such as the suicide pact with Caddy or the desire for revenge against Dalton Ames, but his ideas are always unspecific and inevitably end up either rejected by others or carried out ineffectively.
		Quentin’s focus on ideas over deeds makes him a highly unreliable narrator, as it is often difficult to tell which of the actions he describes have actually occurred and which are mere fantasy.
	www.sparknotes.com /lit/soundfury/terms/charanal_5.html (257 words)

	Lori Campbell
		Compson as a vivid symbol of the stereotypical ideal of southern womanhood, the transfer of her role in the family to her young daughter also suggests the Old South passing into a new era with very different values.
		Quentin also recalls his father's description of the qualities that define a gentleman: "Father said it used to be a gentlema n was known by his books; nowadays he is known by the ones he has not returned" (Faulkner 81).
		Compson is as vacant and useless to Quentin as Mrs.
	www.engl.duq.edu /servus/Order_and_Disorder/campbell.html (5362 words)

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		Quentin Compson- The narrator of the second chapter, and the oldest of the Compson children.
		Caroline Compson- She is the mother and wife of the Compson family, and is very self-pitying towards her life.
		Quentin is emotionally troubled with this whole situation involving Caddy’s pregnancy and he commits suicide by drowning himself in the Charles River.
	www.mindspring.com /~jskesterson/bookreviews/zaapeng12analysisthesoundandthefury.doc (1023 words)

	Teaching Faulkner, Southeast Missouri State University
		Quentin's embarrassment and guilt over being caught with "a dirty girl like Natalie" (134) is both interesting and revealing: "I jumped hard as I could into the hogwallow and mud yellowed up to my waist stinking I kept on plunging until I fell down and rolled over in it" (136?7).
		Quentin's subsequent attempt to rescue the little lost Italian girl, another "little dirty girl" (146), in Cambridge is an obvious attempt to atone for his failure to protect Caddy.
		Ironically, Quentin is no more successful in his chivalric treatment of the little stranger than he was with Caddy: his possessive behavior being misunderstood as attempted child molestation, he is detained for a time by policemen and must himself be rescued by his friends.
	www.semo.edu /cfs/teaching/index_4889.htm (2994 words)

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		Quentin Compson, a sensitive and intelligent boy who goes to Harvard and ends up drowning himself after one year there.
		Compson cannot raise her own children and relies on a nanny to do this, Quentin is a “sensitive bundle of neuroses,” Caddy is stubborn and promiscuous, Jason is mean-spirited and aloof, and Benjy is severely mentally disabled.
		Quentin’s watch represents his preoccupation with time and reminds him of his heritage that his family cannot live up to.
	www.mindspring.com /~jskesterson/bookreviews/soundfury.doc (846 words)

	GradeSaver: ClassicNote: The Sound and the Fury Study Guide - Character List (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Quentin Compson: the oldest child of Jason and Caroline, he suffers from his mother's coldness and substitutes his sister's love for his mother's.
		Quentin challenges him to a fight and calls him a "flguard," but in fact he is kind and chivalrous, refusing to hit Quentin and sincerely concerned when he finds out that Caddy is pregnant.
		Quentin intrigues them because he actually is a member of the Southern aristocracy into which they are trying to insinuate themselves.
	www.gradesaver.com /classicnotes/titles/fury/charlist.html (1302 words)

	Free Barron's BookNotes for The Sound and the Fury - The Novel-Free Literature Summaries/Booknotes from PinkMonkey.com
		Quentin is named for the Compson family's oldest son, who killed himself eighteen years earlier while he was a student at Harvard.
		Quentin Compson II governed the state, and Jason II was a general (although not especially successful).
		Compson, who don't care enough about their children; with hypocritical, alcoholic Uncle Maury Bascomb; with promiscuous Caddy (although her love for her brothers reveals the goodness in her); with angry and dishonest Jason; and with dishonest Quentin, Caddy's daughter.
	pinkmonkey.com /booknotes/barrons/sndfury2.asp (7323 words)

	GradeSaver: ClassicNote: Absalom, Absalom Study Guide - Full Summary and Analysis
		Quentin, who is twenty years old and comes from a prominent family (his grandfather was a general in the Civil War), is confused about why she would want to tell him this story, which has become a popular local legend.
		Quentin guesses that she wants the story told, "so that people...will read it and know at last why God let us lose the War." This reason is because the South was in the hands of men like Thomas Sutpen.
		Compson explains, were "guarded and lugubrious" and, on the whole, probably rather wretched for Miss Rosa, who was forced to play with her several-years-older niece and nephew.
	www.gradesaver.com /classicnotes/titles/absalom/fullsumm.html (12728 words)

	Free Barron's BookNotes for The Sound and the Fury - The Story-Free Literature Summaries/Booknotes from PinkMonkey.com
		Compson called it "the mausoleum of all hope and desire." He said, "I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all your breath trying to conquer it." Mr.
		Compson is thrilled with the car and with Herbert, and she goes on about it (pages 115-16) in the pretentious manner you can identify as unmistakably hers.
		Compson uses the Bible to show off how good she is. It isn't an important part of her life, the way it is Dilsey's.
	www.pinkmonkey.com /booknotes/barrons/sndfuryX.asp (7276 words)

	CliffsNotes::The Sound and the Fury:Book Summary and Study Guide
		Quentin is the only character in the novel who is concerned with honor, with justice, and with love; he is the only one who searches into the intricacies of life and attempts to find some ordered meaning from life.
		He is the only Compson who feels pride in the family's once-noble past and the only one who feels the need to discover some reason for the family's present downfall.
		Quentin's dilemma, therefore, is not just with Caddy's honor, but with the causes that led her to violate her chastity.
	www.cliffsnotes.com /WileyCDA/LitNote/id-125,pageNum-23.html (521 words)

	William Faulkner, a writer from Oxford, Mississippi, and author of The Sound and the Fury
		Quentin's concept of honor and "protecting the family name" are so highly ingrained that he feels it necessary to challenge Dalton Ames, the boy who first violated his sister.
		Quentin's preoccupation (obsession, perhaps) with the past helps illustrate the novel's themes of the destructive nature of a hereditary curse and the progression of time as a force of the erosion of man's soul.
		Quentin Compson possesses a great penchant for the remembrance of past events, a trait which implants in him both a great reverence for his family's lore and honor and a painful reaction to the realizations, often harsh, that maturity brings.
	www.shs.starkville.k12.ms.us /mswm/MSWritersAndMusicians/writers/Faulkner.html (2539 words)

	CollegeClub.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Quentin attends Harvard and eventually commits suicide while living in Boston because of the inability to cope with the incestuous desires for his sister.
		Quentin has a chance to exact revenge on behalf of his family and Caddy when Ames offers him his pistol, but fails to do so.
		Servant for the Compson family and a surrogate mother figure for the Compson children.
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	Sanity and Insanity in Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury Faulkner Sound and the Fury Essays
		Quentin Compson, the oldest son of the Compson family in William Faulkner's novel, The Sound and the Fury, personifies all the key elements of insanity.
		Quentin is seriously mentally ill and does many stupid things to lead up to "serious harm," his suicide.
		Compson is a raging alcoholic, detached from his family, and has crazy cynical views.
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	Amazon.com: The Sound and the Fury (Vintage International): Books: William Faulkner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Compson: The mother who is so helpless that she cannot take care of herself, let alone her family.
		Quentin may repeatedly invoke Macbeth's "walking shadow," and the novel's title may echo that same play, but this is story that rivals "Hamlet" in its forcefulness, vitality, and inexhaustibility.
		The Sound and the Fury depicts the tragedy of the decline of the Compson family and much of the novel is told in a stream of consciousness style, in which a character's unadorned thoughts are conveyed in a manner roughly equivalent to the way our minds actually work.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0679732241?v=glance (3043 words)

	EDSITEment - Lesson Plan
		These latter concepts are woven into a complex tapestry of race and class-consciousness and internecine struggle as the Compsons contend with the interrelated dynamics of family honor and feminine virtue within the context of social acceptability, life's perceived order, and the element of time.
		Be sure to review with students a genealogy of the Compson family (note that clicking on a name leads to the glossary entry for the character).
		The University of Saskatchewan's Department of English's map of the Compson house is also useful for gaining some bearings while reading the novel.
	edsitement.neh.gov /view_lesson_plan.asp?id=664 (2608 words)

	The Sound and the Fury Quentin Compson
		Quentin's monologue, the second section of the book, takes place on June 2,1910, while he is a student at Harvard.
		It is the day Quentin decides to commit suicide and the whole monologue details the events of this day and the events that led up to his decision to take his life.
		Faulkner's themes of family pride and the changes wrought on an individual over time are played out in Quentin's character.
	www.enotes.com /sound-fury/4574 (154 words)

	SSSL: Bibliography: The Language of Chaos: Quentin Compson and The Sound and the Fury (May Cameron Brown)
		SSSL: Bibliography: The Language of Chaos: Quentin Compson and The Sound and the Fury (May Cameron Brown)
		"The Language of Chaos: Quentin Compson and The Sound and the Fury"
		“The unusual blend of order and chaos in Quentin's section; the illusory, obsessive imagery; his inability to find and express meaning in his experience--all reflect the decaying world which is at the heart of the novel.”
	www.missq.msstate.edu /sssl/view.php?pid=8156 (73 words)

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