The story centers on the son of a West Virginia poor white and his attempts to fulfill his "grand design" to be accepted as a Southern aristocrat and founder of a wealthy family. He establishes himself in Jefferson, Mississippi, and, at the climax of his career, he is elected colonel of Jefferson's 
The story centers on the son of a West Virginia poor white and his attempts to fulfill his "grand design" to be accepted as a Southern aristocrat and founder of a wealthy family. He establishes himself in Jefferson, Mississippi, and, at the climax of his career, he is elected colonel of Jefferson's regiment in the Civil War. Returning to his estate, Sutpen's Hundreds after the war, he finds the plantation in ruins. FTP, name this novel by William Faulkner, whose title is taken from the Old Testament story of the rebellious third son of David.
The story centers on the son of a West Virginia poor white and his attempts to fulfill his "grand design" to be accepted as a Southern aristocrat and founder of a wealthy family.
{Absalom, Absalom!}