Sutpen Plantation Arbor (Location Key)

The grounds of Sutpen's plantation in both "Wash" and Absalom! include a "scuppernong arbor behind the kitchen where on Sunday afternoons [Wash] and Sutpen would drink from [a] demijohn" (538, 99). In the novel, Sutpen gets to lie in a "barrel stave hammock" while Wash, after fetching a bucket of water from a spring "almost a mile away," pours the whisky and water and "squats against a post" (99). In "Wash" the water is from a "cistern" (538). Scuppernongs are a variety of grape native to the South.