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	Absalom, Absalom! - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Thomas Sutpen arrives in Jefferson, Mississippi, with some slaves and a French architect who is something of an indentured servant with him.
		Sutpen had worked on a plantation in Haiti as the overseer, and while there, he married an “octoroon” (a person who is one-eighth fl) named Eulalia Bon, who bore him a son, Charles.
		Sutpen did not know that Eulalia was of mixed race until after the marriage and birth of Charles, but when he found out he had been deceived (which is his own interpretation of events), he renounces the marriage as void and abandons his wife and child.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Absalom,_Absalom! (1036 words)

	WFotW ~ Absalom, Absalom!: COMMENTARY
		Thomas Sutpen returned home a few months later to find his design in ruins: his wife had been dead for three years, his son was a fugitive, and his daughter was doomed to spinsterhood.
		In an effort to beget a male heir, Sutpen became engaged to his dead wife’s sister, Rosa, who had come to live at the plantation, but when he suggested they have a child first and if it were a boy they would marry, she broke off their engagement in outrage.
		Thomas Sutpen’s sole living heir, Jim Bond, is left howling over the ashes of the house.
	www.mcsr.olemiss.edu /~egjbp/faulkner/n-aa.html (1158 words)

	The Decomposing Archetypes of Thomas Sutpen and Mr (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Thomas Sutpen, whose last name is a near rhyme with its allegorical double, is painted throughout the first chapters of Absalom, Absalom!
		And Miss Rosa dies as the sole purveyor of the Satan-Sutpen myth, a legend decomposed and recomposed in its perpetual retelling.
		Kurtz and Thomas Sutpen, both Conrad and Faulkner display the imperfect unity of humanity, bound to both halves of any dialectic and inconscribable in any iconic representation.
	www6.semo.edu /cfs/tfn_online/AA_linneman.htm (2778 words)

	SparkNotes: Absalom, Absalom!: Chapter 1
		In 1833, she says, Thomas Sutpen descended upon Jefferson with nothing more than a horse and two pistols and no known past (with a group of savage slaves and a French architect in tow, Sutpen at their forefront like a demon--this is how Quentin pictures the event).
		Sutpen was little better than a savage himself, holding fights between his slaves--fights in which he often participated--and horse races, luring men to his plantation for events undescribable to young girls.
		Sutpen had two children by Ellen, Henry in 1839 and Judith a year later, but being a father did not temper his wild, violent behavior.
	www.sparknotes.com /lit/absalom/section1.html (974 words)

	Thomas Sutpen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Thomas Sutpen is the protagonist of William Faulkner's 1937 novel Absalom, Absalom!
		Sutpen arrives in Faulkner's imaginary Yoknapatawpha County in Mississippi in the 1830s and established a 100 square mile (260 km²) plantation, Sutpen's Hundred, in an attempt to create his own personal dynasty.
		However, the sins of his past and indiscriminate sexual practices and alcoholism eventually caused the downfall of his empire by the early 20th century.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Thomas_Sutpen (93 words)

	GradeSaver: ClassicNote: Absalom, Absalom - Character List (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		She was briefly engaged to Thomas Sutpen after her sister died, and then left his house when he insulted her.
		She was born of one of Sutpen's slaves and lived in the house, serving the Sutpens until the Civil War.
		She dies the same day that Thomas Sutpen does, and by the hand of the same man--her grandfather, Wash Jones.
	www.gradesaver.com /ClassicNotes/Titles/absalom/charlist.html (866 words)

	Teaching Faulkner, Southeast Missouri State University
		The Decomposing Archetypes of Thomas Sutpen and Mr.
		In a twist of dramatic irony, the reader is forced to negotiate between the vulnerable innocence of Sutpen the man and the apparent evil of Sutpen the demon, and the novel leaves Quentin to sift through the rubble of the story fragments for his own conclusion.
		For Sutpen’s imperialistic terror is balanced by an implicit psychological vulnerability and warped undercurrent of innocence, and Kurtz’s nobility is diluted beyond recognition by the imperialistic venue that he chooses for his messianic journey.
	www.semo.edu /cfs/teaching/index_4816.htm (2425 words)

	Absolam, long response 1 - 3 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		She describes Sutpen with so much hatred that he almost takes form of a monster, which is incapable of feelings.
		Sutpen was in the Cival War with General Compson, and as the stories have been passed down to Mr.
		Copsons version, I learned of Sutpens marriage disaster, his immediate family,his illegitimate child with a slave, and a previous marriage to a woman who was 1/8 fl, who bears Sutpen a son, which is his dream, but also his downfall.
	www.clas.ufl.edu /boards/owl/drjswf/messages/221.html (886 words)

	Liz Meyer's English Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		She says his grandpa was Sutpen’s first friend in in the area, and she thinks the story she has to tell him is worth writing down.
		She tells him that Sutpen, whom she says was a “wild demon”, arrived suddenly with a group of ten “wild, naked negroes” in Yoknapatawpha County in 1833.
		At the end of the war, Thomas Sutpen told Henry that Bon was also part fl, and this knowledge made Henry so angry that he killed Bon on the day he was to be his best man. Henry vanished, and Thomas Sutpen returned from the war to see his house in ruins.
	www.chs.helena.k12.mt.us /faculty/kmorand/webper2/Meyer7.htm (596 words)

	WFotW ~ Faulkner Glossary: "S"
		At any rate, John Sartoris is a widower at the time of the Civil War, when in 1861 he and Thomas Sutpen raised the first regiment of Confederate soldiers in the county and went to Virginia to fight.
		Sutpen's Hundred: The name which Thomas Sutpen gave to the hundred square miles of fertile bottomland near the Tallahatchie River in northern Yoknapatawpha County which he bought from the Chickasaw chief Ikkemotubbe in 1833.
		After Sutpen's death in 1869, part of the land was bought by Major de Spain to be used as a hunting ground.
	www.mcsr.olemiss.edu /~egjbp/faulkner/glossarys.html (4614 words)

	SparkNotes: Absalom, Absalom!: Characters
		Thomas Sutpen - Owner and founder of the plantation Sutpen's Hundred, in Yoknapatawpha County, near Jefferson, Mississippi.
		Charles Bon - Son of Thomas Sutpen and Eulalia Bon, the part- fl daughter of the owner of the Haitian plantation on which the young Thomas Sutpen was overseer.
		Milly's grandfather; murdered Sutpen with a rusted scythe in 1869.
	www.sparknotes.com /lit/absalom/characters.html (573 words)

	Watermarks 2001
		In her introductory account of Sutpen, Miss Rosa says, "Anyone could have looked at him once and known that he would be be lying about who and where and why he came" (11).
		If Sutpen views the life he desires as a way to somehow balance the scales, whereby success would be the greatest revenge, the implementation of his design amounts to all that might have been in his favor had it not been for his social position and upbringing.
		Because the Sutpen myth reaches the reader from out of the past (which is largely unknown, shaped by those who do the telling of it) reconstructions cannot (nor can they be expected to) faithfully represent actual events.
	www.llp.armstrong.edu /watermarks3/dnj.html (2625 words)

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		Thomas Sutpen desperately attempts to construct and maintain his family and his plantation, Sutpen's Hundred, in the time before and after the Civil War.
		In his quest for understanding, Quentin is aided by Sutpen's sister-in-law, Rosa Coldfield, the daughter of an objector to the Civil War, Goodhue Coldfield.
		Rosa's own quest for the truth ends in her confrontation with Clytemnestra Sutpen, Thomas Sutpen's daughter by a slave, who futilely tries to preserve the family after her father's death.
	xroads.virginia.edu /~1930s/PRINT/ababgwtw/navigation.html (554 words)

	Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Decades after the Sutpen dynasty came to an end, Quentin Compson is a twenty year-old man, the grandson of Thomas Sutpen's first friend in the country (General Compson), who is preparing to leave Jefferson, Mississippi, to attend Harvard.
		But Sutpen realizes that Bon is actually his son from a previous marriage which he abandoned when he discovered that his wife had negro blood, which makes Bon Henry and Judith's half-brother.
		At the end of the war, Sutpen (a colonel) finds Henry and reveals to him that not only is Bon his and Judith's half-brother, he is also, in part, a fl man. Sutpen feels that if his first attempt to have Henry break the marriage didn't work, this new news certainly would.
	www.midcoast.com /~loonscry/absalom (393 words)

	Absalom, Absalom!,
		The principle narrative, set in 19th-century Mississippi, concerns the efforts of Thomas Sutpen to transcend his lowly origins by establishing and maintaining a slave-driven empire--"Sutpen's Hundred"--on the frontier.
		Henry flees; Sutpen, who is determined to produce a male heir to replace the absent Henry, eventually is murdered.
		Bracketing this mythic story is the struggle of Quentin Compson, a young Mississippian at Harvard decades later (and the grandson of a Sutpen acquaintance), to come to terms with the story's implications for his native region.
	www.britannica.com /nobel/micro/732_93.html (319 words)

	Absalom, Absalom! (Vintage International) - From Monitor-Data.com Store
		The story of Thomas Sutpen, an enigmatic stranger who came to Jefferson in the early 1830s to wrest his mansion out of the muddy bottoms of the north Mississippi wilderness.
		Once I thought I had a grasp on the story taking place with Thomas Sutpen and the other characters, my feet are pulled out from underneith.
		In a nutshell it is a mystery: why did Sutpen's son, Henry, kill Charles Bon, his friend and classmate and suitor to his sister, Judith?.
	www.monitor-data.com /books/0679732187.html (1305 words)

	Moopuna: Term Papers on William Faulkner
		Faulkner's strong condemnation of the values of the South emanates from the actual story of the Sutpen family whose history must be seen as connected to the history of the South (Bloom 74).
		Thomas Sutpen is the son of a poor mountain farmer who founded the Sutpen estate.
		Thomas Sutpen stands for all the great and noble qualities of the South, and at the same time represents the failure of the South by rejecting the past and committing the same types of acts that his ancestors did (Brodhead 34).
	www.moopuna.com /c5768.htm (392 words)

	characters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Thomas Sutpen - The driven man from humble beginnings who designs a plan to raise an enormous mansion and pass it and its prestige down to his children.
		Miss Rosa Coldfield tells him the story of the Sutpens because she feels he should write it down and preserve it for future generations.
		Thomas Sutpen’s old drinking buddy, he kills Sutpen when Sutpen fathers his granddaughter’s (Milly) baby girl and then rejects them both cruelly.
	www.chs.helena.k12.mt.us /faculty/kmorand/webper2/Meyer8.htm (337 words)

	sutpen - Books, journals, articles @ The Questia Online Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		...on the Ashes: The Fall of the House of Sutpen and the Rise of the House of Sethe...the Ashes: The Fall of the House of Sutpen and the Rise of the House of Sethe...as a basis, Hogans essay considers Sutpens mansion and 124 Bluestone Road as fictional...
		Sutpens Designs: Masculine Reproduction and the Unmaking of the...OF ABSALOM, ABSALOM!S NOT-SO-NICE SELF-MADE MAN, Thomas Sutpen, comes to us from the Greek Thomas, this latter a rendering...breeding," but "he" comes to represent competing and, for Sutpen at least, violently incoherent ideologies of what it means...
		The actions of Thomas Sutpen which could be called outrages are betrayals...Miss Rosa Coldfields version of Thomas Sutpens life is an outraged feminine picture of...the soundless Nothing.
	www.questia.com /search/sutpen (984 words)

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		Sutpen can be viewed as sympathetic after the biases of Miss Rosa’s opinions and the nature of Sutpen’s mission to create a lasting family are explored.
		Sutpen should be further sympathized with because of the nature of his determination to create a family.
		First, Miss Rosa happens to be Sutpen's sister-in-law, which brings automatic bias to her testimony because she has an emotional attachment to Sutpen.
	www.iona.edu /faculty/dwilliams/499/hyper/ag/rationale_link.htm (657 words)

	Free Essay Absalom, Absalom! - Ghosts of the Old South (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The trunk is a man named Thomas Sutpen, who, after an adventurous youth in Virginia and the West Indies, arrives in YoCo in the 1830's with a large supply of money and fl slaves, builds a plantation, marries a local girl, Ellen Coldfield, and fathers two children, Henry and Judith, envisioning a fruitful dynasty.
		She has suffered some unhappy experiences as a result of being associated with Sutpen, but she retains a certain pride as she recounts her history to Quentin Compson, the morose young man who, we know from "The Sound and the Fury," is later to drown himself in the Charles River.
		As in "Light in August," race consciousness is a major subject in "A, A!" Thomas Sutpen is revealed to have fathered a boy named Charles Bon by a Haitian woman he thought was "pure" white, but he abandons her and the baby when he learns of her mixed ancestry.
	mail.echeat.com /essay.php?t=26909 (759 words)

	Vintage Catalog \| Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner
		Henry repudiates his father and flees; ultimately Sutpen, with his plantation in ruins after the Civil War, is reduced to selling trinkets in a backwoods general store.
		After his plan to breed yet a third family with the sister of his dead wife fails, Sutpen impregnates the teenage daughter of a poor white man, who kills him with a scythe when he insults the girl because she has given birth to a daughter.
		Faulkner is interested in the causes and effects of extreme psychological pressures, as we see in Quentin and Benjy Compson, Henry and Thomas Sutpen, Rosa Coldfield, Vardaman and Darl Bundren, and many other characters in these novels.
	randomhouse.com /vintage/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=0679732187&view=rg (2649 words)

	Absalom: Chapter 7
		Thomas Sutpen born in a log cabin in the mountains of western Virginia
		Sutpen is sent by his father "to the big house with a message"
		Sutpen "puts his first wife aside" because she cannot "forward his design"
	etext.lib.virginia.edu /railton/enlt214/aachap7.html (440 words)

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	[WikiEN-l] What constitutes a copyvio?
		[[User:Stevertigo]] rolled back the copyvio boilerplate I'd put on the page and said in [[Talk:Thomas Sutpen]]: "I rolled the copyvio deletion back because this little text --even if copied from an edu site does not constitute a problem for us.
		There was no copyright notice on the source page, it was not copied in full, and theres no reason why the effort placed in calling this a copyviolation cant be better put toward changing the text to make it unique." I'm certainly not qualified to do anything to this article.
		I had no idea who Thomas Sutpen was until I read this article.
	mail.wikipedia.org /pipermail/wikien-l/2003-September/006375.html (268 words)

	Absalom, Absalom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In a stroke of literary genius, Faulkner resurrected the deceased Quentin Compson to tell the tale of Thomas Sutpen, a man who arrived in the town of Jefferson, Mississippi with a band of wild slaves, an indomitable will, and a vision of establishing a dynasty.
		Bonn not only befriends Henry Sutpen but falls in love with Judith and plans to marry her.
		Judith becomes a widow before she is even a bride and Henry goes insane.
	courses.lib.odu.edu /engl/jaenglis/spring2000/666/dmassey/page2.htm (166 words)

	Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom! Essays - Faces and Voices in Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom!
		I think Faulkner uses this device to enhance the fact that the story is told from memory-- much of it from the point of view of the characters‘ childhoods.
		He says “he was just there, surrounded by the faces, almost all the faces which he had ever known.” I think the fact that Sutpen’s father and sisters aren’t referred to as such but only by their faces says a lot about the nature of relationships in his life.
		By referring to “Sutpen faces” when speaking of Judith, Henry, Clytie, and later, Charles Jr., Rosa significantly enhances the image of Thomas Sutpen as a mysterious, shadowy figure who can never be pinned down.
	www.123helpme.com /preview.asp?id=25640 (1534 words)

	Amazon.com: Absalom, Absalom! (Vintage International): Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Sutpen's Hundred, Miss Rosa, Miss Coldfield, New Orleans, Charles Bon, Aunt Rosa, Wash Jones, Thomas Sutpen, General Compson, Holston House, New England, West Indies, Jim Bond, Rosie Coldfield, Pittsburg Landing, University of Mississippi, Colonel Sutpen, North Mississippi, Quentin Compson, Porto Rico, West Virginia
		is Faulkner's great novel of the rise and fall of the Sutpen dynasty and a great allegory of the rise and fall of the Old South.
		Compare Faulkner's story about Thomas Sutpen and his "Grand Design" to any similar stories about the "American Dream"--by Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Wolf, Steinbeck--or to any of the subsequent writers said to be "Faulknerian" in their style.
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