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: What Really Happens to Jason Compson in The Sound and the Fury By Wayne W. Westbrook The New York Cotton Exchange takes a large chunk out of Jason Compson's day on April 6, 1928 in William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury. Speculation in cotton futures is just one thing more that addles Jason and brings to ruin his nickel-and-dime schemes. For one who craves a profit on every deal, Compson gets a good drubbing in his cotton market trade. By the end of the day, he suffers a staggering loss from the short sale of one cotton futures contract, the total amount of which no one has yet put a specific dollar figure on. Nor is it clear that Faulkner himself did the math and realized how much Jason actually lost in this trade. The first commentator to understand that Jason sold a contract of cotton short on the New York Cotton Exchange was William W. Cobau in "Jason Compson and the Costs of Speculation." Cobau does not establish just how much the speculation cost him, however: "How much money does Jason lose? We do not know" (258). The essential fact is that Jason sold short,
The Southern Literary Journal – University of North Carolina Press
Published: May 21, 2009
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