Unnamed Roman Consul
Character Key Number:
2454
Display Name:
Unnamed Roman Consul
Sort Name:
Unnamed Roman Consul
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?:
No
Biography:
A "consul" was the highest elected official in the Roman Republic. In Absalom! the "youthful Roman consul" traveling among "barbarian hordes which his grandfather conquered" is the symbolic figure with whom Mr. Compson compares Charles Bon, the urban sophisticate visiting the "isolated Puritan country household" of Thomas Sutpen (74).