Thomas Sutpen In William Faulkner's 'Absalom !'

Absalom, Absalom! Thomas Sutpen in the South Absalom Absalom!, written by William Faulkner was a novel that he wrote to represent this kind of figure that was defiant and self-governing. The importance of this novel was to specifically look at the man’s connection to the past. This story also represents many other things such as determination and slavery. Values as well played a big portion of the things that were different in the new South and from the perhaps Old South. In this story, Quentin Compson, a student who attends Harvard, relates or describes in this novel Thomas Sutpen that was a very good friend to his grandfather, Mr. Compson, at the time. When Quentin Compson narrates the story, he reflects on the South around the mid-1800s.

He wanted to prove himself so he left the United States and started working at a plantation as an overseer in the West. While being there, he had his eye on the owner’s daughter and without any questions married her instantly. However, after finding out that she was not completely white, but was mixed with black in her he took off back to the United States with no coins at all and only a few slaves with him. Thomas Sutpen came to a county in 1833 that was located in Jefferson, Mississippi called Yoknapatawpha. When he arrived there he was on a horse that he rode to a motel so he could have a place to stay and at night he would go through the town and made people curious of him. What was so nice about coming to Mississippi was knowing that you could buy any land in the area because majority of the whites there were poor and they could not afford to buy hardly anything. They did not have any money to even try to purchase land of any kind. Thomas Sutpen was the talk around town. He would always stay to himself making him very suspicious to everyone. He never would even drink with the other men or really talk to anyone so people questioned him wanting to know who he