Benbow Sartoris
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Character Key:
Display Name:
Benbow Sartoris
Sort Name:
Sartoris, Benbow
AKA:
Bory
Race:
White
Gender:
Male
Class:
Upper Class
Rank:
Minor
Vitality:
Alive
Family:
Sartoris
Family (new):
First Mentioned:
Date of Birth:
Thursday, January 1, 1920 to Friday, December 31, 1920
Biography:
Benbow Sartoris is the son of Bayard and Narcissa, and as his two names suggest, the 20th century descendant of two of Yoknapatawpha's oldest families. His birth occurs at the end of Faulkner's first Yoknapatawpha fiction, Flags in the Dust (1929), but he seldom appears again in the canon, and when he does appear, it is in minor roles; in The Mansion Charles Mallison says he is going "out to Sartoris to shoot quail with Benbow," adding that although Benbow "wasn't but seventeen," he was one of "the best bird shots in the county" (228).
Note:
CUT: The last male descendant of the prestigious Benbow family, Horace Benbow is a major character in two of Faulkner's earliest Yoknapatawpha novels - <em>Flags in the Dust</em> (1929) and <em>Sanctuary</em> (1931). (Novel's Benbow is Bayard and Narcissa's son, p228)
Individual or Group:
Individual
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