Absalom, Abaslom! Episode 3—Charles Bon & Henry Sutpen: College Friends, Brothers in Arms, Sons, Rivals?

In this third episode proper of Summer Reading with the Diehls Season 1, Adam Diehl and his wife Whitney discuss the first dynamic duo of William Faulkner’s 1936 novel Absalom, Absalom!: Charles Bon & Henry Sutpen. According to Adam, the two characters make up “a world-class bromance.” Why, then, would Henry shoot Charles at the front gates of Sutpen’s Hundred?

 

This episode also considers the novel’s sub-genre: Murder-Mystery?