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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Sutpen"”.
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An American Dream: The Fatal Gambit For Sutpen And Gatsby
… lines that delineate the characters of Thomas Sutpen from William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! and Jay Gatsby from F. Scott Fitzgearald's The Great Gatshy, as men of distinctive American character in fatal pursuit of the American dream. The attainment of that dream, defined as an individual …
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Growing Up Faulkner: Coming of Age, Identity, and Parental Responsibility in Three Faulkner Families.
… of their children. In the Compson family, the Sutpen family and the Bundren family, the influence of the parents' action or paralysis confuses the identities and roles of their children. The children often look to themselves or to one another in absence of healthy parental models, but they are …
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Keeping "body and soul together": Rosa Coldfield's gothic voice in absalom, absalom!
… her fellow narrators. Rosa’s narrative of Thomas Sutpen is surrounded by narratives of Mr. Compson, Quentin, Shreve and a third person narrator. Rosa’s position as an old maid, paradoxically, validates her position as storyteller and provides her with an audience. The next section, “Absalom, …