In this first episode proper of Summer Reading with the Diehls Season 1, Adam Diehl and his wife Whitney discuss the first main character of William Faulkner's 1936 novel Absalom, Absalom!: Rosa Coldfield. They analyze her place and purpose in the novel, her power as a narrator (and possibly as a heroine), and her predicament in regard to Thomas Sutpen (a.k.a. "demon"). Is she a persuasive voice in Quentin Compson's life?