Absalom: Using The Three Narratives to Understand Sutpen William Faulkner wrote Absalom, Absalom by utilizing narrative voices to develop different perspectives on the most complex character of Thomas Sutpen. Each narrative provides diverse character insight as each describes their story from their own point of view. This writing style requires the reader to use all three narratives to fully understand the character, Thomas Sutpen. The second daughter of Goodhue Coldfield, Rosa, who was born twenty-seven years after her sister Ellen, seemed to see things very deeply. She was alwa