I.                   Sutpen

A.    Downfall? (Worth)

1)      Land

2)      Sons

3)      Self (manipulation)

B.     Nature vs. Nurture

1)      Racist or Product of Environment (Will/Kerry)

2)      Ruthless or determined (Barbre)

C.     End worth the means?...does he really end?

D.    Cares about legacy because of self or because of the way he is viewed?

E.     Compassion?

II.                Cyclical Nature

A.    Supernatural (exists outside of time)

1)      Charles Bon as ghost (Duncan)

2)      Past as ghost (Mike) à South inhabited with ghosts

3)      Sutpen as still living (Jenny)

B.     Past & Future:  as haunting the future

1)      Jim Bon: end and beginning (Rick)

III.             The South

A.    Quentin’s Hatred

B.     Complexity of Morality

C.     Grey area

D.    Sutpen as South? (Emily)

E.     History from different perspectives?

1)      Economy

2)      Slavery (Chelsea)

3)      Had economic need …used Bible to justify slavery (story of Ham)

IV.             Class/Legacy(survival)/Status

V.                Race

A.    Sons

B.     Identity Charles (biracial) à Ryan

C.     Identity of Henry

D.    Identity of Sutpen

E.     Jim Bon

F.      Colorism: Black as tainted/white as pure

VI.             Bias (Ben)

A.    Different Perspectives

B.     Human Nature

C.     What bias brings readers…

D.    Faulkner commentary on human nature