Absalom, Absalom!, 236 (Event)

Submitted by sfr on Sat, 2017-12-09 12:33
Text: 
Absalom, Absalom!
Location: 
Sutpen Plantation in Absalom, Absalom! (Location)
Page Number: 
236
Order within Page: 
1
First 8-10 words of event: 
one in a Mississippi library sixty years ago, with
Page Event Ends: 
237
Era: 
Antebellum (1831-1860)
Characters Present: 
Charles Bon
Henry Sutpen
Judith Sutpen
Thomas Sutpen
Characters Mentioned: 
Quentin Compson
McCannon, Shreve
Narrative Status: 
Narrated
Date: 
Monday, December 24, 1860
Summary: 

Paradoxically, the narrator describes how "Quentin and Shreve" are "one" with the scene in Sutpen's library even as he notes how the picture they imagine of Judith and Bon walking in the garden is impossible (236). [SOURCE: Shreve-Quentin; Narrator]

Chronological Order: 
253.00
Indeterminate Date Range: 
Keywords: 
Vision, Imaginative_Communion, Garden, Unreality
Environment:
Domestic Space›College dormitory | Domestic Space›Garden | Domestic Space›Library | Time of Day›Night
Actions:
Perceptual›Looking
Themes and Motifs:
Objects›Flowers | Past›Past in present
Relationships:
Familial
Aesthetics:
Metafictional›Picture/image

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