The Sound and the Fury Chapter 3 (April Sixth, 1928)

Jason Compson is the kind of person who would get his picture thrown darts at. Maybe if he'd change (his personality, not his clothes- if it's the Judge uniform, then definitely the clothes too), he'd be somewhat tolerable, but "once a bitch, always a bitch" (direct quote from Jason... irony at it's finest). Any last ember of hope for Jason there is extinguished. Unfortunate, but a very brilliant move on Faulkner's part. 

Jason Compson is uncanny to the biblical character Judas, who is commonly known for receiving pieces of silver for betraying Jesus in Matthew 26:15; Both are blinded by the sweet taste of wealth, but bitter price. However, differences lie in the aspect that Judas is openly exposed at The Last Supper, but Jason is not truly exposed because his mother continues believing he is "the man of the house." 

The common ground that all the Compson children, I found, is the condition of mental illness: Benjy is handicapped, Quintin is hell-bent on prestige, and Jason is money-grubbing. I choose to analyze Faulkner's intentional disposition of the Compson family to be an underlying message of the crumbling Old South; The family seems to be degrading parallel to the Old South (and the concept of affordable college education nowadays is fading too...). Through Jason, I think Faulkner is saying more than just this. Jason's racism and belittling of women is downright despicable, just like the belief of white supremacy in the Old South was. An example of this Jason's monologue in the hardware store where he says, "What this country needs is white labor. Let these dam trifling niggers starve for a couple years..." (Faulkner 198). However, Jason's spiteful nature was prevalent even as a child, evident when he would reveal all of Caddy's flaws out, strikingly different from Benjy and Quintin as they absolutely adore Caddy but Jason seems have prejudice against her, and when he would scam other little children into selling kites made from flour paste. As Jason becomes an adult, his actions become more disgusting; he steals his niece's money, lies to his mother, bashes on non-whites, etc. (So, Jason's sweater is definitely not boyfriend-material). Even with all the money he deceitfully acquired, it still could not change his malice-filled existence. Perhaps through this, Faulkner is suggesting that the South is so far antiquated that the only way out is for it to cease to exist, similar to how Jason is so far corrupt that the only peace brought will be from him ceasing to exist. 

And with that, I conclude with the note that man made money, but money made him mad. If you want an example of this, then look no further than Jason in this chapter.  

-LBugL