In this novel, a man murders another man with a scythe after his fifteen year-old granddaughter,who had just given birth to a child, is abandoned by that man; when that murderer is found, he slits hisdaughter's throat.
In this novel, a man murders another man with a scythe after his fifteen year-old granddaughter,who had just given birth to a child, is abandoned by that man; when that murderer is found, he slits hisdaughter's throat. This novel ends with the question, "Why do you hate the South?" which prompts thenarrator to think, "I don't hate it! I don't hate it!" The central family's house, known as The (*) Hundred,is finally burned down by the young Clytie, and the main plot is told mostly as part of a conversation betweenShreve and his Harvard roommate who was himself told the story by Rosa Coldfield. Another character in this novelmurders his half-brother Charles Bon when he realizes that Charles is half black. For 10 points, name this novel byWilliam Faulkner about the family of Thomas Sutpen.
In this novel, a man murders another man with a scythe after his fifteen year-old granddaughter,who had just given birth to a child, is abandoned by that man; when that murderer is found, he slits hisdaughter's throat.
Absalom, Absalom!