Jason vs. Heathcliff

            At first prospective, the two characters from The Sound And The Fury and Wuthering Heights are very comparative and have a deep effect on their individual stories. Jason Compson chooses not to love or to marry to anyone. He earns love from only his mother. Then again, Catherine and Mr. Earnshaw love Heathcliff. More examination will show that Jason and Heathcliff do not have much in common.
             Jason's heritage, even from his earliest childhood, is one of mischievousness and extreme dislike. Jason remains isolated from the other children. Like his brothers, Jason is obsessed with Caddy, but his obsession is based on bitterness and a desire to get Caddy into trouble and to blame his faults on her.
             I wouldn't lay my hand on her. The bitch that cost me a job, the one chance I ever had to get ahead, that killed my father and is shortening my mother's life everyday and make my name a laughing stock in the town. I wont do anything to her (182).
             Herbert Head had offered Jason a job at his bank, but rescinded that offer when he divorced Caddy. This retraction left Jason no choice but to work at the local farm-supply store. Though Mrs. Compson hopes Jason will own the store one day, Jason is bitter about having lost his bank job and being forced to work in the farm-supply store.
             Ironically, the loveless Jason is the only one of the Compson children who receives Mrs. Compson's affection. Jason does not have the ability to accept, enjoy, or return this love. Jason rejects not only household love, but romantic love as well. He hates all women passionately, and thus cannot date or marry and have children.
             Once a bitch always a bitch, what I say (180).
             He is talking to Mrs. Compson, when they are in the kitchen. Both Mrs. Compson and Jason are arguing over what should be done with Miss Quentin and how she should be treated. Jason's only romantic fulfillment as an adult comes from a prostitute in Memphis, Lorraine.