In this second episode proper of Summer Reading with the Diehls Season 1, Adam Diehl and his wife Whitney discuss the man whom Faulkner called the protagonist of his 1936 novel Absalom, Absalom!: Thomas Sutpen. They consider him as a name, as a person, and as a design. Does this novel give readers an accurate portrait of Thomas Sutpen?
In addition to Sutpen and his vision, they also cover a central word for the novel: innocence.
