Quentin Compson and Shreve, his Harvard room-mate, are obsessed by the tragic rise and fall of Thomas Sutpen.
But in after the chaos of Civil War, secrets from his own past threaten to destroy everything he has worked f.
His relentless will ensures his ambitions are soon realised; land, marriage, children.
From then on, he was determined to force his way into the upper echelons of Southern society.
As a poor white boy, Sutpen was turned away from a plantation owner\'s mansion by a negro butler.
Quentin Compson and Shreve, his Harvard room-mate, are obsessed by the tragic rise and fall of Thomas Sutpen