Jason's Chapter

      Jason's blog was hard at times for me to read. The way that he was so vulgar and how he put women and African Americans down was horrendous. He even starts out the chapter with the line, "Once a bitch always a bitch, what I say." He continues his story in a very resentful way and he is a representation of the greed of society.
    
     Jason starts by addressing most women as "she", meaning that he does not see them as an individual person, but instead as women. He threatens to slap this "she" and grabs her arm being very aggressive with her. He tried to show that he is dominate because he is a male, and he threatens this girl, who turns out to be Quentin from another generation. His mother cries and he provides no comfort to her at all. An example of his harsh writing on women is, " ..Up there in her room, gobbing paint on her face and waiting for six ni**ers." Gobbing has a negative connotation and he is saying how women basically try so hard to be pretty.


    Jason is a complete racist against many different types of people. When talking of African- Americans he says, "Six ni**rs that can't even stand up out of a chair unless they've got a pan full of bread and meat to balance them." He represents the old South still by treating African- Americans in such a harsh way and acting like they are less important than whites. He believes that African- Americans are still just meant to be servants. He also blames the Jewish people for the stock markets prices being so high.


     Jason thinks that he is better than his whole family and actually separates himself from them. He shows this by providing an excessive amount of dialogue; unlike Quentin, who talks as though he has become other people. Jason quotes other people to show that he would never say the things that the rest of his family says. He also says that he is not really of his own blood, he claims that he is better. He is really just trailer park trash in the eyes of the readers.


    This chapter is filled with Jason's resentment towards how his life played out. He says, "I never had time to go to Harvard or drink myself to the ground. I had to work. But of course if you want me to follow her around to see what she does, I can quit the store and get a job where I can work at night. Then I can watch her during the day." He is saying that Quentin went to Harvard and got to live the high society life and he was stuck working and watching after a girl.


     Overall, Jason represent the old, greedy southern ways. He was big on investing money in the stocks and did all he could to get as much money for himself as possible. He always goes back to talking about money and I think it is because he thinks that money will make him look like a better person. He is the "loser" of the family and he just wants to prove his worth through money, which is a common quality of many Americans today.