Word: compsons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...members of the third generation turned savagely on their parents when they found that the traditions they inherited did not square with the bitter actualities of life. So his books are full of melodrama: the last descendants of old families lie awake in crumbling houses; pompous parents like Mr. Compson deliver half-drunken lectures to their children; elderly spinsters of gentle birth talk hysterical nonsense to impressionable youngsters; young girls creep through the wisteria vines to meet lovers their parents will not accept; young men split their minds trying to make sense of the hodgepodge of Southern traditions, gossip, inaccurate...
...main story deals with Thomas Sutpen, an ambitious planter who settled near Jefferson, Miss, in 1833. Another tale deals with Quentin Compson, a Harvard freshman born and raised in Jefferson, who. in 1910, tried to figure out what had lain behind the Sutpen tragedy. A third deals with Rosa Coldfield, Sutpen's sister-in-law, and with Quentin's father, who told Quentin what they knew of the Sutpens. (Still a fourth story can be detected only by readers of The Sound and the Fury.) Thus readers must not only figure out what happened to the Sutpens...
Before leaving for Harvard 50 years later, Quentin Compson. who was one of the principal figures of The Sound and the Fury, heard fragments of this story, with fact and fiction intermingled. At Harvard he discussed the whole tragedy with his roommate, and the book is apparently the fruit of that discussion, a compound of their speculations, Quentin's memories of his father's words, of his last glimpse of the last living Sutpen. Thus Author Faulkner leaves it up to the reader to decide how much of the story is a reflection...
Here Author Faulkner plays his last joker, for readers of The Sound and the Fury will recall that Quentin Compson himself has been guilty of incest with his sister, and that he commits suicide while at Harvard as a result...
Furious at himself, H. R. H. cabled to Ireland. Next day Archie Compson, towering British golf teacher, left Ireland in a hurry, streaked for Biarritz to coach his royal pupil back to form...