Absalom, Absalom!, 241 (Event)
Text:
Page Number:
241
Order within Page:
2
First 8-10 words of event:
Today he finished robbing a drunken Indian
Page Event Ends:
241
Era:
Antebellum (1831-1860)
Characters Present:
Narrative Status:
Told
Date:
Friday, June 7, 1833 to Friday, December 31, 1841
Summary:
Shreve imagines the lawyer re-telling the Sutpen story as a series of financial memorandums on the "secret paper" he keeps in his office. The lawyer's entries refer to: Sutpen acquiring his land, his marriage to Ellen, the birth of his son and then his daughter. All these are entered in terms to the growing "val[ue]" of Sutpen's estate (241). [SOURCE: Shreve]
Chronological Order:
55.00
Indeterminate Date Range:
Keywords:
Italics, Calculations, Secrecy, Scheming, Wealth, Materialism
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Aesthetics:
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