Absalom, Absalom!
"Absalom, Absalom!" takes place in the deep south, partly after the Civil War, but much of the story actually takes place during the war. It deals with the strong racist views that existed and continue exist, though relatively tame in comparison, in the hearts of many people to this day. In the novel, there is a man named Thomas Sutpen who, after moving to Jefferson, Missouri in 1833 almost single-handedly erected an estate on 100 acres of land, taken from a tribe of Indians. He quickly became one of the most successful plantation owners in the south, but was also a very immoral man who had an unstoppable determination to form his life to match up with a very specific "design" that he had had in his head since the age of 14.
Those are the facts. Much of the rest of the legend of Thomas Sutpen is speculation and rumor since we never get to meet the man behind the stories. Thomas Sutpen died in 1869 while the story takes place in 1909. It starts off with the main character,......
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