Unnamed Someone(3)

Submitted by sfr on Sat, 2017-11-25 10:12
Text: 
Absalom, Absalom!
Character Key: 
Unnamed Someone 4
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Unnamed Someone(3)
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Unnamed Someone(3)
Race: 
White
Gender: 
Male
Class: 
Indeterminable
Rank: 
Peripheral
Vitality: 
Alive
First Mentioned: 
Western Virginia in Absalom, Absalom! (Location)
Biography: 

To explain his father's decision to move east to the Tidewater, Sutpen speculates about who might have influenced the decision, and describes three different possibilities: "somebody, some traveler," who praised the quality of life in the Tidewater; or "perhaps somebody his father knew once . . . [who] happened to think about him; or "someone kin to him . . . [who] had sent for him" (181). Sutpen's musings here resemble the novel's larger pattern of speculation, as Rosa, Mr. Compson, Quentin and Shreve all try to define 'Thomas Sutpen' or 'Charles Bon.'

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Created by a Character in Text
Individual or Group: 
Individual
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