An Analysis of the Sutpen Brothers in Absalom, Absalom!

William Faulkner is a famous American novelist, and he won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1949. He was regarded as “modern classic writer” by western Literature. Absalom, Absalom! is one of his most important works, and is also one of the most complicated and abstruse, the most epic style works. The book’s title comes from a Bible story, and the story describes the love and hate between parents and children, between brothers, and also describes the ambiguous relationship between the brother and sister. Through these descriptions, William Faulkner created vivid characters, and through these characters, William Faulkner revealed the rotten and evil nature of racism of the Old South