Jason Compson III

Compson's father Jason — clever, skeptical and not quite healthy man. He has a certain opinion about time, history, humans, and society. The author has a positive attitude toward him. However, he is also as his wife, not an ideal parent, too interested in intellectual, logical matters. His family belonged to the number of the oldest and most influential families in Jefferson and its district. Now Compsons are impoverished and miserable, they lost all their wealth, degraded not only economically, but also physically, and morally. He understands that their glorious past has inevitably gone and will never return.

Therefore, he expresses skeptical and pessimistic thoughts that no battle leads to victory, that battle does not even exist. He says that the battlefield only reveals to the man the depth of his delusions and his despair, and victory is only an illusion, a product of philosophers and fools. He is inclined to deep thoughts and paradoxical reasoning, as well as to whiskey, reacted to everything philosophically.

After Caddy’s missing, he repeated that virginity is something like death — a change that is felt only for others, and, thus, nothing more than the invention of men. Two years after Quentin's suicide, Mr. Compson dies — not from whiskey, as Mrs. Compson and Jason mistakenly believe. You can not die of whiskey - you can die of life.