Roan+Horse

[Mainly used to describe the color of a horse], of the color sorrel, chestnut, or bay and sprinkled with gray or white; fabric prepared from leather of this color.

This was Sutpen's horse; an impressive and formidable extension of him.

"//He [Sutpen] was already halfway across the square when they saw him, on a big, hard-ridden roan horse, man and beast looking as though they had been created out of thin air and set down in the bright summer sabbath sunshine in the middle of a tired foxtrot//..." AA [24] - This was Sutpen's mysterious entrance into Yonkapatawpha county.

"//One day and with the sheriff of the county among them, a party of eight or ten took the road out to Sutpen's Hundred. They did not go all the way because about six miles from town they met Sutpen himself. He was riding the roan horse, in the frock coat and the beaver hat which they knew...He stopped the roan [it was April then, and the road was still a quagmire]//... [AA, 34] - This party of eight or ten wanted to arrest Sutpen upon his second [and just as mysterious] arrival in town, this time, with all manner of fine goods.

"//It was in June of 1838, almost five years to the day from that Sunday morning when he rode into town on the roan horse.//" AA, 37 - The morning of Sutpen's marriage to Ellen Coldfield.

Works Cited: Dictionary.com //Roan//. Web. Faulkner, William. //Absalom, Absalom!// Vintage International, 1936. Print.

-- Christina Sandoval