One character tells his fifteen-year-old mistress, "Too bad you're not a mare like Penelope.
This work's narrator recalls first seeing the main character's family being driven to church by a wild-eyed slave. One character tells his fifteen-year-old mistress, "Too bad you're not a mare like Penelope. Then I would give you a decent stall in the stable" because she had borne him a daughter, not a son. That man had cheated a Chickasaw chief out of a hundred acres of land and married Ellen as part of his "design" for greatness. Rosa helps explain why Henry killed Charles Bon rather than let him marry Judith to this book's narrator, Quentin Compson. For 10 points, name this novel about Thomas Sutpen, one of many works set in Yoknapatawpha County by William Faulkner.
This work's narrator recalls first seeing the main character's family being driven to church by a wild-eyed slave.
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