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William Faulkner came from an old, proud, and distinguished Mississippi family, which included a governor, a colonel in the Confederate army, and notable business pioneers. He grew up in Oxford, Mississippi which he later renamed Jefferson, Mi ....

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... 74). Quentin tells this story in response to a Northerner's question: "What is the South like?" As the novel progresses, Quentin is explaining the story of the Sutpen myth and revealing it to the reader. Faulkner says that the duty of an author, as an artist, is to depict the human heart in conflict with itself. This attitude is revealed in the conflicts that Henry Sutpen undergoes in Absalom, Absalom. Thomas Sutpen is the son of a poor mountain farmer who founded the Sutpen estate. Thomas Sutpen stands for all the great and noble qualities of the South, and at the same time represents the failure of the South by rejecting the ...