- Compare/contrast the setting for Ch 2’s storytelling with that of Ch1. More broadly, how does Mr. Compson’s narrative differ from Rosa’s? How does Compson’s Sutpen differ from Coldfield’s? Which characters predominate in each narrative? What does each know first-hand, and what does each interpolate?
- What does the town think of Sutpen? Why is Sutpen so problematic for proper Jeffersonians? What do we learn about Jefferson and its values and assumptions from the way it receives Sutpen? [Note the many culinary references here!]
- What does Sutpen’s/Coldfield’s wedding mean? What tensions exist around it? How does the wedding engage the themes of Sutpen’s grand “design” for his life and of Sutpen’s relationship to the town of Jefferson?
ENGL 389 Spr21
William Faulkner
