Thomas Sutpen
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Thomas Sutpen is the protagonist of William Faulkner's 1936 novel Absalom, Absalom!. Sutpen arrives in Faulkner's imaginary Yoknapatawpha County in Mississippi in the 1830s and established a 100 square mile (260 km²) plantation, Sutpen's Hundred, in an attempt to create his own personal dynasty. However, the sins of his past and indiscriminate sexual practices and alcoholism eventually caused the downfall of his empire by the early 20th century.
The short story Wash in Collected Stories of William Faulkner is about the death of Thomas Sutpen.
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