Eulalia Bon is the first wife of Thomas Sutpen. Sutpen rejects her and their child, Charles Bon, after discovering that she has Black ancestry, though he provides for them financially. In Quentin and Shreve’s imagining of events, Eulalia is an embittered, vengeful woman who concocts a scheme to use Bon to exact revenge on Sutpen for abandoning her.
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Chapter 7
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“[…] ‘I found that she was not and could never be, through no fault of her own, adjunctive or incremental to the design which I had in mind, so I provided for her and put her aside.’ […]”
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Eulalia Bon Quotes in Absalom, Absalom!
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Chapter 7
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“[…] ‘I found that she was not and could never be, through no fault of her own, adjunctive or incremental to the design which I had in mind, so I provided for her and put her aside.’ […]”
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