Thomas Sutpen
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Thomas Sutpen
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Sutpen, Thomas
Race:
White
Gender:
Male
Class:
Upper Class
Rank:
Peripheral
Vitality:
Dead
Family:
Sutpen
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Biography:
Sutpen is an early settler in Yoknapatawpha who bought one hundred square miles of wilderness from Ikkemotubbe, land that included the hunting camp on the Tallahatchie River that Sutpen in turn sold to Major de Spain. His story is at the narrative center of Absalom, Absalom! (1936). In this novel he is only mentioned twice, both times as the original owner of the land that Major de Spain bought as a hunting ground (181, 241).
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Individual
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