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Quentin Compson

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in Cambridge, Massachusetts, commemorates his life and death. The small brass plaque, the size of one brick, is located on the brick wall of the Eastern (
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at Harvard University, before hurling himself off a bridge on June 2, 1910. Quentin's thoughts are articulated with Faulkner's innovative
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which chronicles Quentin's childhood in postbellum Mississippi as well as the last months of his life in
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Quentin Compson is also the name of his niece, the illegitimate daughter of his sister Candace (Caddy).
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Bombardieri, Marcella. "Bridging Fact and Fiction Marker a Nod to Faulkner."
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