Sutpen Plantation Gate (Location Key)

Like doors elsewhere in the fictions, the gate at the entrance to Sutpen's plantation is both a physical and a symbolic location. It is "half a mile" up a "tree-arched" drive from the house (292). In 1865 it becomes the scene of the crime that the novel's various storytellers keep trying to explain. When Quentin Compson goes past it in 1909, all that's left are "two huge rotting gate posts" (291).