Absalom, Absalom!, 184 (Event)
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Page Number:
184
Order within Page:
1
First 8-10 words of event:
and the man who owned all the land
Page Event Ends:
185
Era:
Pre-Removal (-1830)
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Narrative Status:
Told
Date:
Friday, January 2, 1818 to Friday, December 31, 1819
Summary:
Sutpen secretly watches the planter for whom his father works in a hammock, being waited on by a slave wearing "better clothes than he or his father and sisters had ever owned" (184). He watches without envy, and innocently. [SOURCE: Sutpen; Grandfather-Quentin]
Chronological Order:
6.00
Indeterminate Date Range:
Keywords:
Voyeurism, Race, Class, Clothing, Innocence
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Cultural Issues:
Aesthetics:
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