# Benjy Compson — The Sound and the Fury character guide

> Benjy Compson in The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner.

**Role:** major

**Also known as:** Benjamin, Ben, Whooey, Sassprilluh

**First appearance:** 0000-april-seventh-1928

## Who they are

The mentally disabled youngest Compson son, whose fragmented narration opens the book.

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