Sutpen Ancestors and Descendants
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Sutpen Ancestors and Descendants
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Sutpen Ancestors and Descendants
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?:
No
Biography:
After the young Thomas Sutpen is turned away from the front door of the Tidewater plantation house in Absalom!, he suddenly recognizes his responsibility to "all the men and women that had died to make him" and "all the living ones that would come after him when he would be one of the dead" (178).