http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/keyword/absalom-absalom Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Thu, 04 Jun 2026 23:47:13 -0400 Thu, 04 Jun 2026 23:47:13 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/313/faulkners-absalom-absalom-and-the-mysterious-rosa-coldfield By Alicia D. Costello - William Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom! begins in the year 1833, when the stranger, Thomas Stupen, rides into Jefferson, Mississippi, and promptly begins building himself an empire. He builds a plantation named Stupen’s Hundred, takes a wife, Ellen Coldfield, and has two children, Judith and Henry. Ellen’s much younger sister, Rosa, comes to live at Stupen’s Hundred after Rosa’s only guardian, her father, nails himself in the attic and throws the hammer out the window in protest of the Civil War. Despite attempting to fulfill Ellen’s deathbed wish to look after... Mon, 01 Nov 2010 10:03 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/313/faulkners-absalom-absalom-and-the-mysterious-rosa-coldfield