Thomas Sutpen's Sister 2

Submitted by sfr on Wed, 2019-03-13 15:47
Character Key Number: 
257
Display Name: 
Thomas Sutpen's Sister 2
Sort Name: 
Sutpen, Sister of Thomas 2
Parent Character Key: 
Thomas Sutpen's Father
Thomas Sutpen's Mother
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?: 
No
Biography: 

Based on the phrase "one of the sisters" in Absalom!, we can say that Thomas Sutpen has at least two sisters (185). This entry is not the sister who gets pregnant, twice, during the family's trip from the mountains to the Tidewater region of Virginia. Sister(2) may be the one who altered their father's hand-me-down clothes to fit the young Thomas (185), or she may be the sister who refuses to "give way" to a rich family's carriage (187), or she may be the sister whom Thomas sees still later, after he has been turned away from the big house, as "shapeless in a calico dress and a pair of old man's shoes unlaced and flapping about her bare ankles and broad in the beam as a cow" (191). From the text, however, we cannot say for sure if Sister(2) does any or all of these things.

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