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An 8 page paper which examines how Faulkner depicts the character of Compton in his novels Absalom, Absalom! and The Sound and the Fury No additional sources cited.
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man named Quentin Compson. The novels are approximately set in the same time period as the stories take place just before and during the time that Quentin goes to Harvard,
and shortly thereafter ends his life. In the two novels the character of Quentin plays different roles, but his character is ultimately the same in relationship to consistency on the
part of Faulkner. The following paper examines the character of Quentin in each novel, individually, and then discusses how the two relate, comparing and contrasting characteristics within the novels as
they apply to Quentin. Absalom, Absalom! In this particular novel Quentin is not, by any means, the main character. He is simply a young man who is called upon
by Miss Rosa Coldfield to essentially record her history and her familys history. In his time with her he learns a great deal about society, families, and with his intelligent
mind he tries to decipher meaning: "Quentin seemed to see them, the four of them arranged into the conventional family group of the period, with formal and lifeless decorum....a group
which even to Quentin had a quality strange, contradictory and bizarre; not quite comprehensible...twenty telling himself even amid the voice Maybe you have to know anybody awful well to love
them but when you have hated somebody for forty-three years you will know them awful well so maybe its better then, maybe its fine then because after forty-three years they
cant any longer surprise you and make you either very contented or very mad" (Faulkner 14). In this particular excerpt the reader gets insight into who Quentin is, how
he thinks, and how he attempts to make sense of life, and people, and society. He is trying to establish who this woman is, understand the social elements of her
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