The name "Wash Sutpen" originates in William Faulkner's novel "Absalom, Absalom!"
The character name "Wash Sutpen" comes from William Faulkner's "Absalom, Absalom!" The story originates with a short story titled "Wash," the main characters of which are Thomas Sutpen, an immoral landowner, and Wash Jones, a tenant farmer, whose daughter Sutpen has impregnated (a frequently anthologized story). This was incorporated into the novel as the end of Chapter VII.