Wai Chee Dimock, professor of English and American Studies at Yale, continues her reading of William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury by focusing on Jason's section of the novel. She uses Raymond Williams's concept of the "knowable community" to explain Jason's rage, tracing it from his pointed hostility toward his family and household servants to his diffuse anger at abstractions like New York Jews, Wall Street, Western Union, and the federal government. Dimock reads this anger as an early sign of a modern condition defined by strangers and impersonal systems replacing older, local forms of community. The lecture moves through Jason and his car, the contrast between Jefferson's knowable community and New York's unknowable one, and closes by showing how Faulkner still extends qualified sympathy and pathos to Jason despite his cruelty. Recorded at Yale as part of the course Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner, with timestamped chapters covering each stage of the argument.