April Sixth, 1928
Lots of families tend to have a rebellious troublesome child, for the Compsons, Jason is that child. When we first meet Jason Compson, we see him in Benjy's chapter sabotaging the paper dolls she and Benjy made. Caddy believed that he was being spiteful and did it out of pure meanness while Jason denied he didn't do it to be mean. Faulkner makes it clear from the beginning that Jason would be a troublesome child. Jason seems like the type of  person that likes to be in control and to hold the upper hand. As a child he was always a tattletale, "If you've already told... There's nothing else you can tell now"  Caddy points this out in  Benjy's chapter. Jason's way of "telling" on  the others was his way of power over them. As he gets older we see that Jason is becoming greedy with power and money. He's been scamming both his mother and his niece with money. The money Caddy sent to her daughter, Jason's been stealing without Quentin's knowledge while Jason's mother thinks he's making good money at his job. Even with all the stealing he's done and the lies he's told, Jason is still unhappy, bitter even. He's an ungrateful man that only looks out for himself, thinking that he's better than everyone around him. He thinks his mother is an "old fool", that Caddy and Quentin are nothing but a disgrace, and the people that work for his family are nothing but filthy low class "n-words". He'd rather send his whole family to Jackson where the crazy mental asylum is. This shows how much of a terrible man he is. I couldn't believe how hateful of a character he is, but then you could have predicted it by the way he treated Caddy and Benjy when they were younger. He is a man that cheats, scams, and lies, he only looks out for himself and when things go down hill, he blames anyone but himself.