Gate at Sutpen's in Absalom, Absalom! (Location)

The gate at the entrance to Sutpen's mansion was "half a mile" up a "tree-arched" drive from the house (292). In 1865 it becomes the scene of a crime that the novel's various storytellers keep trying to solve. When Quentin Compson goes past it in 1909, all that's left are "two huge rotting gate posts" (291).