Based on the novel's phrase "one of the sisters," we can say that Thomas Sutpen has at least two sisters (185). This entry is not the sister who gets pregnant, twice, during the family's trip from the mountains to the Tidewater region of Virginia.
Based on the phrase "one of the sisters" in Absalom!, we can say that Thomas Sutpen has at least two sisters (185). This entry is not the sister who gets pregnant, twice, during the family's trip from the mountains to the Tidewater region of Virginia.
Bucky Temple's grandparents apparently live in New Orleans (136). The city appears in the novel again when the narrator speculates about what kinds of local stories the people who lived in Yoknapatawpha could tell their friends or relatives from elsewhere who "passed through Jefferson on the way to New Orleans or Florida" (196). The novel also links New Orleans to Memphis as the two places where even Yoknapatawphans who don't do much traveling are likely to go - to misbehave during "a few prolonged Saturday nights" (205).
