![]() The plantation was built as Sutpen sought to create a perfect world. ![]() His decision to stay atop the social stratification system led to the construction of a plantation that he called the Sutpen’s hundred, which would be built on a hundred square miles of virgin land in Yoknapatawpha County, which he obtained from a Native American clan (Faulkner). He consequently made a stern decision to attain a high social status by developing a plan and design that “orders personal existence in basically rigid ways” (Malin 11). Thomas Sutpen is a mysterious man, in the sense that people never really understood him and his idea of building the Sutpen’s hundred was borne out of the fact that he realized while he was growing up that men are not equal and humans were respected based on the materialistic things they have. ![]() Sutpen and his intention of building the Sutpen’s Hundred ![]()
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