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- Compson answers by describing Rosa's life: her mother died while giving birth to her, after Ellen had already been married for seven years; Rosa was raised by the spinster aunt who had insisted on Ellen having a large wedding, and grew up hating her father for her mother's death.
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According to Mr. Compson, the real reason Rosa didn’t go to Sutpen’s Hundred right away is that she knew that “Judith knew,” and “may have known for some time,” where Henry and Bon had gone and hadn’t told Rosa. And perhaps Judith didn’t tell Ellen before Ellen’s death, either.
Mr. Compson believes that Miss Rosa hated him without fully realizing her feelings. Thomas Sutpen was away from home fighting in the Civil War when Miss Rosa moved into Sutpen’s...
When Quentin returns home that evening, he asks his father, Mr. Compson, why Miss Rosa chose him to tell her story to. Mr. Compson says it’s because she’ll need a man—a young one—to “do it the way she wants it done.”
Rosa covers much of the same plot events in this chapter that Mr. Compson has already discussed, but Rosa disagrees with Mr. Compson on several important things. She also covers or hints at much of the remaining plot, after this murder in 1865 and up to the present of the novel in 1909.
Miss Rosa takes up the story where Mr. Compson left it, saying that Quentin will already have been told how she ordered Wash Jones to harness the mule to her buggy while she put on her hat...
Quentin Compson. Miss Rosa Coldfield is an elderly woman who lives in Jefferson, Mississippi. She’s one of the novel’s main narrative voices—the novel opens with Quentin sitting in Miss Rosa’s stuffy, dimly lit house as she tells him the story of how Thomas Sutpen doomed and destroyed her family.
