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Goodhue Coldfield
General Compson is Mr. Compson’s father and Quentin Compson’s grandfather. He was Sutpen’s only friend and loaned him the seed cotton he used to get started on his plantation. Because most of what Mr. Compson passes down to Quentin comes from stories that General Compson told him, Sutpen comes off as more sympathetic in sections told from Mr. Compson’s perspective.
General Compson Quotes in Absalom, Absalom!
The Absalom, Absalom! quotes below are all either spoken by General Compson or refer to General Compson. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 3
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That’s what Miss Rosa heard. Nobody knows what she thought.
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Chapter 7
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“His trouble was innocence. All of a sudden he discovered, not what he wanted to do but what he just had to do, had to do it whether he wanted to or not, because if he did not do it he knew that he could never live with himself for the rest of his life […].”
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Chapter 9
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“Yes. I remember your grandpaw. You go up there and make her come down. Make her go away from here. Whatever he done, me and Judith and him have paid it out. You go and get her. Take her away from here.”
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General Compson Quotes in Absalom, Absalom!
The Absalom, Absalom! quotes below are all either spoken by General Compson or refer to General Compson. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 3
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That’s what Miss Rosa heard. Nobody knows what she thought.
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Chapter 7
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“His trouble was innocence. All of a sudden he discovered, not what he wanted to do but what he just had to do, had to do it whether he wanted to or not, because if he did not do it he knew that he could never live with himself for the rest of his life […].”
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Chapter 9
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“Yes. I remember your grandpaw. You go up there and make her come down. Make her go away from here. Whatever he done, me and Judith and him have paid it out. You go and get her. Take her away from here.”
