(From "The Sound and the Fury" By William Faulkner) The Compson family consists of quite a few generations of powerful, white men who resided in the upper-class. However, in the current generation, consisting of Quentin, Cadence, Jason, and Benjy, they have all fallen, no longer having the title of upper class as they used to. This lineage broke several times among different instances: when Benjy was born disabled, when Cadence got pregnant without being married, when Quentin committed suicide, and when Jason became greedy for money. The societal expectations for being in the upper class didn't allow any wiggle room for the mistakes each Compson child made ("made" in Benjy's case), resulting in them falling from the great lineage they were a part of. The pressure to be perfect got to Quentin, as he couldn't save his family's (specifically Cadence's) reputation; for Cadence, she was likely sick of all the rules she had to follow; for Benjy, he never got a chance, labeled useless from the start; and for Jason, his greed for money and power bit him in the back, when Miss. Quentin ran off with all his money. These mistakes only show how much societal expectations affect familial lineage, as the pressure of it broke the entire Compson family,.