Jason’s Chapter April 6, 1928 Post #4

Jason's chapter in The Sound and the Fury is much easier to understand than Quentin’s or Benjy’s chapter. However, Jason's views and comments on his surroundings are much harder to comprehend or relate to as he is, from what this chapter reveals, a horrible person. Jason has become very bitter towards almost everything as he has gotten older. We see Jason as a child in Benjy's chapter, and even then he seemed unpleasant, but as we see him as an adult, it is evident his personality only got worse. Jason's narration is clear in that he is obviously unhappy with his life and almost everyone it.

This true hatred for much of life has probably resulted because of his family's misfortune and his own failures, such as not getting money from Caddy’s husband. Jason does pretty horrible things such as holding money from Caddy’s daughter, Quentin, using his mother’s blindness of who he really is, and his general beliefs that he expresses through the chapters.

Throughout the chapter we see Jason's personality and beliefs. One of the most common occurrences that took place was the blame he always put on others; ie. it was the “Jews” fault that the market was not doing well, it was African American’s fault that the labor was not good- whit labor should be the only labor, it was Caddy’s fault that the family is no longer what it was, etc. We see much of the old south view in Jason. He is worried about money and personal gain but not much else. He constantly looks and hopes for better for himslef but never actually is active about it.