Furious, Jason orders Luster to take Ben home and confine him within the gates of the estate. One day, the carnival comes to town, and the owner pays Luster, Dilsey's little grandson and Ben's constant companion, to parade Ben around the square wearing a sign advertising the freak show. Quentin, on the verge of womanhood, rebels at Jason's attempts to restore dignity to the family name by making her finish school and develop into a proper young adult. Compson, Jason's despicable, demanding mother. Also living at the house is Howard, Quentin's alcoholic, worthless uncle Ben, Howard's mute, mentally retarded brother Dilsey, the family's motherly housekeeper who was watched them all grow up and Mrs. Compson had squandered the family fortune and Caddy, with her promiscuity, had cost the family its good name, and now Jason toils to support the decrepit estate at a store owned by Earl Scopes, who delights in the family's degradation. Feeling unloved and unwanted, Quentin detests Jason, who assumed responsibility for the household after Jason's Cajun mother married Quentin's grandfather following the death of his first wife. In the small Southern town of Jefferson, Mississippi, seventeen-year-old Quentin Compson has lived under the tyrannical rule of her step-brother Jason ever since her mother Caddy abandoned her at birth.
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