A reporter visits this character's house and meets his daughter Raby in the short story "Evangeline," which was reworked into the novel featuring him.
A reporter visits this character's house and meets his daughter Raby in the short story "Evangeline," which was reworked into the novel featuring him. This character's business partner and father-in-law seals himself in his attic and eventually starves after his store is raided by soldiers. A formative experience for this character occurs when he is turned away from the front door of Pettibone's mansion. This character is killed with a scythe after he impregnates the fifteen year old Milly and discards her when she bears a girl. He forces a captive French architect to design his house, which is burned down by his daughter Clytemnestra. While serving in the Confederate Army, he tells his son Henry that his other son Charles Bon is black. For 10 points, name this man who builds a plantation on one hundred acres in Yoknapatawpha County in William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!
A reporter visits this character's house and meets his daughter Raby in the short story "Evangeline," which was reworked into the novel featuring him.
Thomas Sutpen [or Thomas Sutpen; prompt on Sutpen]