Unnamed Fiancé of Sutpen's Daughter

Submitted by dorette.sobolew... on Fri, 2016-07-15 18:16
Text: 
The Unvanquished
Character Key: 
Charles Sutpen Bon
Display Name: 
Unnamed Fiancé of Sutpen's Daughter
Sort Name: 
Unnamed Fiance of Sutpen's Daughter
AKA: 
Charles Bon
Race: 
White
Gender: 
Male
Class: 
Upper Class
Rank: 
Peripheral
Vitality: 
Dies
Family: 
Sutpen
Occupation: 
Armed Forces
First Mentioned: 
Sartoris Plantation in The Unvanquished (Location)
Date of Birth: 
Thursday, January 1, 1829 to Thursday, December 31, 1829
Origin: 
Haiti
Cause of Death: 
Murder
Other Texts: 
Absalom, Absalom!
Biography: 

Charles Bon is one of the central characters in Absalom, Absalom!, where his murder by his fiancee's brother provides one of the narrative's central focal points. In this novel he appears only anonymously, and in this one sentence: Sutpen's "son killed his daughter's fiancé on the eve of the wedding and vanished" (222). There's no suggestion in this reference that Sutpen's daughter's fiance is also Sutpen's biracial son, so we identify the character here as "White."

Individual or Group: 
Individual
Character changes class in this text: 

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