Unnamed "Boy-Symbol" for Sutpen
Character Key Number:
2380
Display Name:
Unnamed "Boy-Symbol" for Sutpen
Sort Name:
Unnamed "Boy-Symbol" for Sutpen
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?:
No
Biography:
The son Sutpen wants is only one of the two boys at the heart of his "design" in Absalom!. The other is referred to as "the boy-symbol at the door," another poor white child like the boy he himself once was in Tidewater, an "amazed and desperate child" whom he will take inside the front door of his big mansion and so "rive forever free from brutehood just as his own (Sutpen's) children were" (210).