Absalom, Absalom!

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-She is an old spinster (virgin) who has been described as “a ghost” in this novel because she is as all the other women who were living in the time of the civil war and lost their husbands. “Miss Coldfield in the eternal black which she had worn for forty-three years now, whether for sister, father, or nothusband none knew,”(2). She is the only female narrator among this narrative union. She narrates the story of the aggressive life of Thomas Sutpen as the only living link between the past and present. “the lonely thwarted old female flesh embattled for forty-three years in the old insult” (9). - She is younger than her sister Ellen , who was Sutpens wife, by 27 years. -May be because she is apoet, her narration is very enchanting. When she narrates, Quentin imagines the time when sutpen came to Jefferson in 1833 as if he was with him.”Then in the long unamaze Quentin seemed to watch them overrun suddenlythe hundred square miles of tranquil ...”(3). More over, when Rosa disscused her family story Quentin pectures all the characters withen the story. Sutpen’s story from Miss Rosa Narration: In 1909, Rosa wrote a letter to Quentin asking him to visit her house because she wants to tell him about the cause of her family pain, a man named Colonel Thomas Sutpen. when Quantin comes, Rosa narrates Sutpen’s story from her own perspective, also she hints that Quentin will publish her story as a short story in a magazine when she says: “Perhaps you will even remember kindly then the old woman who made you spend a whole afternoon sitting indoors and listening while she talked about people and events you were fortunate enough to escape yourself when you wanted to be out among young friends of your own age ”(5). However, Mr Compson has another reason when Quentin shows him his queries about whyMiss Rosa chooses him to listen to her story. Mr. compson says: It’s because she will need someone to go with her— ... she choseyou because your grandfather was the nearest thing to afriend which Sutpen ever had in this county, and sheprobably believes that Sutpen may have told yourgrandfather something about himself and her, about that engagement which did not engage, that troth which failed to plight.

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