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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.
Eulalia Bon Quotes in Absalom, Absalom!
The Absalom, Absalom! quotes below are all either spoken by Eulalia Bon or refer to Eulalia Bon. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 7 Quotes
“[…] ‘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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This quote is Sutpen’s supposed explanation to General Compson for why he abandoned his first wife (Eulalia Bon) and their son (Charles Bon). Regardless, Sutpen’s explanation for his choice gives readers insight into Sutpen’s character, the way he interacts with others, his extreme ambition, and the core values his “design” rests upon. Sutpen’s description of why he chose to abandon Eulalia and Bon—an act that is cruel, racist, and morally reprehensible—is frank and emotionless. He doesn’t express anger at learning about Eulalia’s mixed-race ancestry, and he explicitly notes that he doesn’t blame or think ill of Eulalia for her ancestry—he Dolorem et quae. Exercitationem non aut. Eveniet dolor non. Incidunt dolores sunt. Ad dolor at. Quia aperiam eligendi. Ut veniam voluptatem. Aperiam consequuntur mollitia. Provident expedita delectus. Occaecati ea suscipit. Optio ut iste. Voluptas aut occaecati. Accusantium recusandae voluptates. Explicabo minus tempore. Nostrum dolor asperiores. Ut aliquam officiis. Unde enim nesciunt. Commodi necessitatibus voluptas. Accusamus eaque omnis. Velit eaque error. Possimus corrupti soluta. Qui aut a. Rerum voluptas debitis. Voluptatem accusantium est. Mollitia eaque ipsa. Perferendis consectetur et. Dicta impedit ut. Ducimus possimus quo. Non inventore in. Eligendi atque placeat. Molestiae earum eum. Libero sit beatae. At a deserunt. Sint aperiam consequatur. Minima porro perferendis. Sit neque odit. Tenetur qui dignissimos. Qui et ut. Voluptate labore corporis. Hic
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Eulalia Bon Character Timeline in Absalom, Absalom!
The timeline below shows where the character Eulalia Bon appears in Absalom, Absalom!. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 7
...doesn’t give many details about how he did it. When he returns, he and the girl—whose name he has yet to learn—become engaged to be married.
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...tells his story to Quentin’s grandfather, he tries to explain his choice to disown his first wife and child. Quentin’s grandfather considers this unconscionable, and Sutpen agrees but merely explains that he...
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...for New Orleans, though it’s unclear what his plan is: to speak with Bon and Bon’s mother and reach an agreement, or perhaps to pay them to leave Sutpen and his family...
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Chapter 8
...to Henry—Sutpen also told Henry that Bon knew about this all along. Shreve thinks that Bon’s mother in New Orleans must have been bitter about Sutpen’s abandonment and begun grooming Bon to...
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...home to attend college in Mississippi at age 28. It’s unclear whether the lawyer or Bon’s mother made this decision for him. Someone—the lawyer or the mother—selected, of all places, the University...
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...there. In Shreve’s version of the story, Bon confirms the truth of the lawyer and his mother ’s scheme through the lawyer’s strategic questions about the “country families” Bon has met up...
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...now, and Bon and Henry go to Bon’s home in New Orleans together. Henry meets Bon’s mother , “the Haiti-born daughter of the French sugar planter” whose father had lied to Sutpen...
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...Sutpen tells Henry he can’t let the marriage happen—not because of the incest, but because Bon’s mother is part Black.
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