Just as Faulkner makes characters like Caddy easy to love, he can make characters like Jason easy to hate. In previous chapters, readers were introduced to Jason's malicious nature, but weren't completely submerged into it until he got a chapter of his own, marking it's start with "once a bitch always a bitch." One could ramble off a thousand negative words to describe Jason's character, one that sticks out to me is selfish. Jason is money obsessed, and even stoops to the level of stealing money from his own niece. Much like the novels other characters, Jason finds himself nostalgic and regretful of the past. Not only is Jason hateful of the past, but of others. He's prejudice and bitter, constantly projecting negativity towards others.
I'm curious as to why Faulkner made Jason's character so easy to hate. Most of literatures "bad guys" have at least one quality or event that causes readers to at least sympathize with them- but Jason? Jason's all bad, all the time. Faulkner wants his readers to hate Jason. Why?
I was totally wondering why Faulkner made Jason easy to hate as well, especially because that tends to be a really hard thing to do in literature because people often sympathize with characters so much. It made him so unbearable at times, though.
ReplyDeleteJason is pretty easy to hate. I didn't like him very much. I think that he was easy to dislike because he might embody a person that we have met before that is selfish, horrible, and cruel.
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