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• W295525426 abstract "Every time any character gets into a book, no matter how minor, he's telling his (William Faulkner, Faulkner in the University 275) It is an understatement to say that much has been written about point of view in Absalom, Absalom!, particularly focusing upon the storytelling and narratological functions of the various narrators. Many studies, especially recent post-structural and historiographical criticism, assume that the only narrator-historians are Rosa, Quentin, Mr. Compson, and Shreve, all of whose object is Thomas Sutpen. But if it is true, as the epigraph above implies, that all of Faulkner's characters engage themselves in acts of self-definition (Kinney 38), a full understanding of Absalom, Absalom! demands attention to how Sutpen, like the other characters, is actually telling his biography. We can better understand the design, rise, and fall of Sutpen if we consider his function not only as the object of the other characters' narratives, but as a subject unto himself. Like the novel's other storytellers, he, too, shapes experience in the implementation of his and in the narration of his life. However, an examination of both the factual and interpretive data that he employs in narrating his biography in chapter VII reveals that he is a flawed narrator. Sutpen's inability to maintain his patriarchal is a reflection of his inability to maintain a narrative design. It is understandable that Sutpen's role as narrator would be overlooked because he does not enter the text unmediated; his voice is revised by later narrators. In chapter seven, the reader hears his voice only through layers of subsequent narrators who filter his original words through their own memories (Quentin relates the story that he heard from Mr. Compson, who heard it from Grandfather Compson, who told it many years after hearing it from Sutpen). Nonetheless, Sutpen's narrative deserves special status because it is the only place in the novel where the author provides something approaching Sutpen's own voice. The novel's other narrators acknowledge the value of the autobiography; given Grandfather Compson's and Quentin's serious reactions to the Sutpen story, it can be concluded that they trust the accuracy of his narrative. As Hugh Ruppersburg has observed, None of the characters who pass it [Sutpen's own story] along seem to doubt its authenticity (120). Therefore, despite the unreliable method of oral transmission, we, too, must trust Sutpen's narrative. When we do, we discover that the narrative not only reveals the motives for his design; it also contains flaws that parallel the fall of his design. Sutpen is unable to master any plan, whether it is the actual design of Sutpen's Hundred or the narrative of his autobiography. As an autobiographer, he betrays the same weakness that he displays as a patriarch: he cannot control and manipulate either the people necessary for his dynasty or the materials of his narration. He is as incapable of living his ideal biography as he is of recording his actual autobiography. As we begin to explicate chapter seven, the context of the autobiography becomes significant. The French architect escapes in an attempt to return to New Orleans. Like the chase in Was, this chase takes on some of the attributes of a game, among which is the storytelling that Sutpen and Grandfather Compson participate in during the night over the champagne and whisky that they and the other men packed before beginning their pursuit. For Sutpen, however, the chase is more than a game; rather, he is literally chasing a part of his that has begun to evade his will like a literary character taking on a life of its own independent of its author. The pursuit, an attempt to maintain the against the architect's flight, motivates and initiates the autobiographical narrative that explains and justifies the origins of the design. As a narrator manipulates characters, Sutpen, in executing his design, treats others not as individuals with intrinsic worth, but as objects to be used: I had a design. …" @default.
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• W295525426 title "I Had a Design: Sutpen as Narrator in Absalom, Absalom!" @default.
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