Absalom, Absalom!, 283 (Event)

Submitted by sfr on Mon, 2017-12-11 13:28
Text: 
Absalom, Absalom!
Location: 
Carolina in the Civil War in Absalom, Absalom! (Location)
Page Number: 
283
Order within Page: 
1
First 8-10 words of event: 
Nor did Henry ever say that he did not remember
Page Event Ends: 
284
Era: 
Civil War (1861-1865)
Characters Present: 
Quentin Compson
McCannon, Shreve
Henry Sutpen
Unnamed Sentry
Characters Mentioned: 
Charles Bon
Joe Johnston
General Lee
Sherman
Colonel Willow
Narrative Status: 
Narrated
Date: 
Saturday, April 1, 1865 to Sunday, April 30, 1865
Summary: 

Henry leaves the tent where his father has just told him about Bon's "negro" heritage (283). The opening, grammatically tortuous sentence of this passage - "nor did Henry ever say that he did not remember" - implies an omniscient narrator, but very ambiguously. Henry thinks about the apparently futile military situation before thinking about "what he would have to do" if Bon went ahead with the plan to marry (284). [SOURCE: Bon-Henry-Quentin-Shreve]

Chronological Order: 
355.00
Indeterminate Date Range: 
Keywords: 
Italics, Fatalism, Solitariness
Environment:
Atmospheric›Dark
Actions:
Movement›Walking
Cultural Issues:
War›Civil War
Themes and Motifs:
Memory›Remembering | Recurring Tropes›Solitary
Relationships:
Familial›Brother-brother
Aesthetics:
Allusion, Historical›Johnston, Joseph E. | Allusion, Historical›Sherman, William Tecumseh | Typography/Orthography›Italics

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