Absalom

Absalom Absalom, Absalom! Many novels have been set out and read by American Literature classes all over. Each novel teaching a political importance or pertaining the importance about the novel and its literary work. The novel Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner is set in the post-Civil War time period, where slavery has been set and prejudice still prevails. Absalom, Absalom! is considered the greatest work of America's greatest novelist, one of that handful of American writers who challenged readers the most pleasurably and provocatively. Absalom, Absalom! Employs a multiple narrator technique, it uses the varying voices and points of view of a number of characters to examine the life and character of Thomas Sutpen, a tragic figure who tries and fails to build a family dynasty in Yoknapatawpha County. The novel shuttles back and forth in time between past and present. It opens in September, 1909, the present, with Quentin Compson talking to Rosa Coldfield about Thomas Sutpen. The main story pieced together from the various narratives is interesting. Thomas Sutpen, a poor farmer from West Virginia, comes to Jefferson in 1833, buys a hundred square miles of land from the Indians with Spanish gold, and builds a absalom, novel, war, time, back, american, thomas, sutpen, set, over, narrative, forth, faulkner, between, been, writers, work, whites, present, period, out, novels, literature, importance, hundred, greatest, economic, each, civil, anguish, about, yoknapatawpha, worked, won, william