Colonel Sartoris

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Display Name: 
Colonel Sartoris
Sort Name: 
Sartoris, John
Race: 
White
Gender: 
Male
Class: 
Upper Class
Rank: 
Peripheral
Vitality: 
Dead
Family: 
Sartoris
Family (new): 
Occupation: 
Armed Forces
Cause of Death: 
Murder
Biography: 

A major character elsewhere in Faulkner, Colonel Sartoris, the patriarch of the Sartoris family and a Confederate officer, occupies a peripheral role in "Shall Not Perish." The Grier narrator notes that his great-grandfather would holler "Colonel Sartoris," among other heroic names, while dozing "in his chair under the mulberry in the yard or on the sunny end of the front gallery or in his corner by the hearth" (112).

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Individual
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