The narrator here is Jason, a racist, misogynist and sadist, but at least his section of the book is told in sequence and the reader is finally able to get an understanding of events.
"Once a bitch always a bitch," is the opening phrase of this section. Jason and his mother are discussing Quentin, Caddy's illegitimate daughter, who lives with them. Jason complains that she is up in her bedroom painting her face when she should be in the kitchen having her breakfast, and Caroline Compson is worried about what the school authorities will think of her if Quentin does not go to school. She says that Jason should see her on the streets, because he is in town all day, and he responds that what Quentin is doing is something she is not.....
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