Absalom, Absalom! By William Faulkner. Specifically it will analyze what makes the novel Southern Gothic. "Absalom, Absalom!" is the story of Thomas Sutpen, a larger than life hero who wants to create his own southern dynasty in the years before, during, and after the Civil War. It is considered one of Faulkner's greatest novels, and an important example of Southern Gothic fiction, as well.

William Faulkner is most known as a southern writer who chronicled life in mythical Yoknapatawpha County Mississippi, a place he wrote about often in his fiction. "Absalom, Absalom!" is one of the best examples of his work, and it represents the best in Southern Gothic fiction, as many critics contend. Southern Gothic is a form of American Gothic writing that morphed from true Gothic writing which began in the 18th century in Europe with such writers as Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and many others. Edgar Allen Poe...
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