English 1022E Lecture Notes - Gelding, Nigger, Redneck
1 Dec 2012
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Part 3 jason compson (april 2, 1928, good friday) Fat (15), a cry baby (17), a tattle-teller, mean spirited, cruel and even sadistic (cuts up benjy"s paper dolls) (43), no different as an adult (won"t give luster the free tickets for the circus, burning them instead (43) Obsessed with money (hands in pockets, 13, 15); jason going to be rich man versh said. He holding his money all the time (23); not a harvard boy, but a hardworking man; brings home an income; provides for the useless black help (uses the n word); invests money with new york. Jews (anti semantic, 120) who he thinks are ripping him off (142) As an adult (age35), he"s assumed the role of surrogate husband to his hypochondriac mother: employee at the farm supply store, runs the household, brings home an income. He has the power of attorney (141) over her estate. His lover, lorraine, is a whore from memphis (122)
