Jason

I don't like him. That right there basically sums up how I felt during this chapter. Jason is a racist, manipulative, sexist, self-centered, greedy, lying mega-douche (to put it nicely). The best example of this starts on page 160 in my book. First of all, Luster is trying to calm down "Ben" by making a fire. From Benjy's chapter, we know that Luster is rude and spiteful towards Benjy just like most other people. In fact, that act of building a fire is almost undoubtedly done just to save his own ears from Benjamin's wailing. But even that is too much kindness for Jason, and he stops Luster, leaving Benjy to cry and the rest of the household to have to listen to it. Following that, Dilsey comes around asking why Jason hasn't eaten. She mentions that they aren't coming to dinner. And how does Jason respond? Like the jerk that he is, he first sarcastically asks if they're sick and then decides that since it's his money buying the food, everybody else can just suck it up and come to dinner. And then to add insult to injury, he talks to Quentin condescendingly all dinner long until she has another one of her emotional outbreaks and runs upstairs. Some of the other lovely things that Jason does include, but are not limited to: stealing the money his sister sends to her daughter, constantly tormenting Miss Quentin, following Miss Quentin and her current lover around town just to mess with them (although admittedly the girl is a bit...promiscuous), burns two tickets for a show rather than give them to Luster, and so on. Most of the time it seems like does all this for the simple reason that he enjoys making others suffer. The only good thing I can say about this chapter is it was much easier to read.